This is the extraordinary story of Knight and Lomas's fourteen year quest to uncover the secret teachings buried beneath…

Coal has transformed societies and shaped the fate of nations. The first half of the book is set in Britain and tells how…

Gene Simmons has also acted in films and on television, has written and produced albums for other recording artists, has…

For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself and his future. It was the…

When Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief. His death was a…

In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich…

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two,…

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What’s the secret to finding success, happiness and love? You need to feel SECURE. How do you become more connected to the…

Did the Trojan War really happen? The Trojan War may have been the inevitable consequence of expanding Greek maritime…

For thousands of years we have grown, cooked and traded food, and over that time much has changed. Fraser and Andrew Rimas…

Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of…

For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense…

People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian…

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Major new biography of the formidable king, familiar to many as the nemesis of Sir William Wallace. His reign led to war and…

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. For more than forty…

Challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers…

What in the world has the power to liberate women in Iran while provoking antagonism between Catholics and Protestants in…

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What if everything you’ve been told about money is wrong?Have you ever been told that cutting your spending is the key to…

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'A lovely book' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads'One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever…

King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly, despicable and cruel. But…

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Based on her personal archive of over 35,000 pages of documents, and extensive interviews with friends and colleagues, this…

The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published'Extraordinary’ Andrew Roberts'Fascinating’ Daily…

This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed by Napoleon's…

In this enthralling historical detective story, the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail trace the flight after 1309…

They had many legendary names - the Divine Pelasgians of Greece, the Luwians of Troy and western Anatolia, the Rephaim and…

Masterly.\' - CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT\'Fascinating stuff.\' - SPECTATOR\'Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis…

This history of Ireland, written by one of Ireland's most controversial journalists, studies the period from 1968 to the…

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An inspiring guide to fostering more security, intimacy and peace in our relationships, and in ourselves, from therapist and…

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It's time for traditional sleep advice to truly consider the neurodivergent mind.> If you’re buzzing at night and can’t…

This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is…

Snow and Steel will be a huge reassessment of Hitler's last great throw of the dice: 'The Battle of the Bulge', the battle…

It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short…

The earliest part of the Bible is recognized as the foundation-stone of three great religions, yet, archeologists and…

Paperback edition of this picture of Georgian London, shaped by the sex industry. Cruickshank drawns on contemporary…

Members of the Polish Air Force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until…

When Execution was first published in 2002, it changed the way we did our jobs. By analysing the discipline of getting…

Starting in Roman times and continuing right up to the present day, this book explains how Spitalfields' streets evolved,…

That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of…

Few years ago the Second Sea Lord of the Royal Navy asked the author to spend time with every level of the Navy staff, from…

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New introduction by Ian Rankin_________________________________________'One of the most playful and entertaining writers of…

When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By…

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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global…

To the people of Great BritainWorld War II was the deadliest and bloodiest war in history.Raiders tells the extraordinary…

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______________________________'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.' The…