'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history ... A skilful storyteller [...] he enlivens the narrative with bloodcurdling…

\nA celebration of all things snow.\n…

• Počet stran 336
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2017

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the…

'A breathtaking account ... Paul Kenyon is a brilliant writer who's been there and tells a story of unparalleled greed and…

'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined…

• Rok vydání 2022

A history of the fate of a single family in the period of the Irish Revolution.…

A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to the…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nSally Coulthard explores the miraculous world of the earthworm, the modest little creature without whom life as we know it…

\nA book about a terrible photograph from the Holocaust - an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment…

A history of Islamic thought - from its foundation in the seventh century to the present day.…

A dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the…

• Rok vydání 2020

\nIn a fascinating journey of rediscovery, Max Adams brings to life the forgotten experiences - and voices - of some of the…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nAn evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert\'s last-born child, and of a sometimes fraught royal…

• Rok vydání 2020

The biography of one of America\'s founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, which became the basis for the hugely successful…

• Rok vydání 2020

A history of the Vikings that fully reflects the extraordinary geographical range of their activities, from Newfoundland in…

An informal history of the movies told through some of cinema\'s best-loved scenes, from the early days of Hollywood to the…

A history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England – nestling deep within the mountains and valleys…

\nA fresh telling of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, the family that dominated political and cultural life in…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music.\n…

\nA concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century.\n…

\nA biography of the great epic poem.\n…

\nAn investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.\n…

\nA recreation of the life and times of Oswald of Northumbria: Christian warlord, founder of Lindisfarne monastery - and the…

• Rok vydání 2020

\nA history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the…

A one-volume, essential history of England\'s longest and bloodiest civil war: the Wars of the Roses.…

\nAn anthology of classical literature, both non-fiction and fiction, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich…

• Počet stran 648
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2019

From Romulus and Remus to the films of Fellini, Rome has always exerted a hold on the world's imagination. Now Ferdinand…

A witty and impassioned book on Ulster, which has been thrust into the centre of British and European politics and which is…

\nA history of the fate of a single family in the period of the Irish Revolution.\n…

\nA dramatic account of Germany\'s slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in…

\nA survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to…

\nConspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the story…

A popular telling of the story of the revival of European intellectual life after the collapse of civilisation that followed…

\nA history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England - nestling deep within the mountains and valleys…