He was the scion of a dynasty that was reputed to descend from King Solomon, a pioneer of African...

A memoir that combines political commentary with personal and national history.

Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized infl...

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the poorly equipped and organised resistance g...

The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains s...

During Admiral Thomas Cochrane’s demolition of imperial Spain’s naval presence in the Pacific dur...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian ...

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and mi...

In the general mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little k...

In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer S...

The Conservative Party have been in power for 47 of the 65 years since the end of the Second Worl...

As a young army officer in 1971, Aziz BineBine was imprisoned after being unwittingly involved in...

Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his i...

In July 1998, ten statues of martyrs of the twentieth century were unveiled surmounting the Great...

No one grows up dreaming of becoming an economist. Until the late nineteenth century, economics c...

Since the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the constititional position of Northern Ireland within the...

The history of the transatlantic partnership has, overnight, become highly topical; in fact, sinc...

ritain's relationship with Russian is surprisingly under-explored. When the two formed a pragmati...

The history of humanity is dominated by violence - it has oppressed and degraded us for centuries...

A poetic and historical travelogue of Syracuse, Sicily.

The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains s...

As one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy h...

Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody'. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev d...

In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel's Jewish grandparents fled Nazi Germany fo...

The first new biography of Eliot for over a decade - now in paperback.

It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed...

There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast rules on how to make it...

More books have been written about Winston Churchill than any modern historical figure, but Peter...

In her essay 'The Roots of Trust', Anna Rowlands argues that our undoubted loss of trust is not a...

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressioni...

A striking biography of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person eve...

More than fifty years after his death, Gamal Abd al-Nasser remains a towering figure in the Arab ...

James Joyce (1882-1941) is hailed as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Reject...

In Himalayas, Thomas Bell embarks on four walks through the Himalaya, each in a different season,...

The first book of its kind to map writers, walks, and writing within the Suffolk landscape.

An emperor meets his people: the extraordinary journeys of Joseph II.

Addresses the shifting interpretations of the Treaty of Lausanne across national contexts, tracin...

Famous photographer, spy for the Soviet Union, and single mother - Edith Tudor-Hart led an eventf...

An updated and revised biography of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Repu...

A timeless call amid the challenging nature of public service to find the familiar in the foreign.

An updated biography of Benjamin Britten, Britain's greatest modern composer, released to mark th...

Essays on Brexit's impact on the UK economy.

A history of Turin, home to Fiat, the Einaudi publishing house, and writers including Italo Calvi...

More than a travelogue: a work of human depth and understanding that has much to teach those inte...

Winding through the mist that shrouds Lewis and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Kociejowski ill...

For Millay Hyatt, it is the charm of 'uncushioned encounters with the world' that makes her, when...

Stephanie O'Connor considers dignity as a guiding moral concern at the limits of life. Drawing on...

Carly Tabor thought she'd buried her gift with Freddy Richards, the orphan child whose remains we...