
A Line In The River
In 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict. When the 198...
View full detailsIn 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict. When the 198...
View full detailsRaja Shehadeh is the most celebrated Palestinian writer working today. To his surprise, when researching his family history, he discovered a great ...
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View full detailsMeet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author...
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View full detailsThe names of T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney are synonymous with the publishing house Faber & Faber, f...
View full detailsFrederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the eighteenth century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the nineteenth. He was ...
View full detailsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's ...
View full detailsMarie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous pl...
View full detailsTranslated by Bryan Doyle Jacqueline van Maarsen's first book - My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank - ends in 1947, two years after the death of ...
View full detailsKing of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important - and most controversial - figures ...
View full detailsCurzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to ...
View full detailsNien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 a...
View full detailsWhenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, sin...
View full detailstranslated by Shigeru Ohta and Alexander Bennett This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who-in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old-joined the Im...
View full detailsFive teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold story. No Return is a unique insight in...
View full detailsNine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound ...
View full detailsSince its initial appearance, A.L.Sadler's imposing biography of the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu has been recognized as an outstanding contribu...
View full detailsThe year is 1927, and in America, Britain and Russia, three young girls share a dream: to fly. But it won't be easy... Against the odds, Hazel, Mar...
View full detailsBased on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life...
View full detailsTranslated by Lara Vergnaud Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Lon...
View full detailstranslated by Peter Zombory-Moldovan The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in ...
View full detailsIn August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the first and only president to resi...
View full detailsFrom Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host o...
View full detailsFrom Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledg...
View full details'Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and h...
View full detailsEmma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw ...
View full detailsIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside...
View full detailsA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose...
View full detailsTitanic: First Accounts compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence B...
View full detailsFor more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some...
View full detailsBorn in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the most important events in China's modern history and was a close associate of both the nationalist leade...
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