WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher…

Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled…

In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a…

Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the…

'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? In a story that brings world history and human…

The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton's career spans 50 films and 40…

Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, the author shows that meaning of words such as…

Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This book examines world civilizations from Sumeria to…

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Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of…

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the…

Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations:…

Includes a new foreword by the author The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his…

From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands…

Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to…

Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhibits a world peopled by…

Traces the drifts of the trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern…

\nConceived of as a \'pharmacopoeia\' - an ever-evolving circle of stones, plants and flotsam sculptures all built and grown…

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\nThe young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he…

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\nThese were the shadows that hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts. And yet…

\nWhile La Vecchia Signora remains Italy\'s best-supported team, it\'s also its most despised. Juve! charts the story of…

The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. A controversial, extraordinary…

Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, goes back to speak to those who were there at the time and those who…

a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have…

Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional…

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The New York Times bestsellerA Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 'Extraordinary...dazzling... a sprawling,…

A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably…

Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, and Odessa, both before and after the Second World War, this title includes stories that belong…

When the war breaks out, Rose, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteers for the Auxiliary Fire Service…

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\nRussell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small…

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\nWe fall down laughing, fall apart, fall away, we fall prey to things, fall from grace, fall in love.\n…