Non-Fiction

Synopsis Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of ...

Synopsis By two Acts of Union, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland - which at the time were separate states with separate legislat...

Synopsis What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Art of Victory in The Age of Sail. This book is a brilliant study of those naval battles of Horatio Nelson which played su...

Synopsis Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal h...

Synopsis An armed uprising. A conspiracy. An assassination. A hanging. These events, starting with the crushing of Jacobite rebels at Culloden in 1...

Synopsis Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while ignit...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo. This book is both a survey of military history in Europe from the...

Synopsis The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, who single-handedly compiled the monumental dictionary/index/gazetteer to the Bible...

Synopsis Winner of the Bancroft Prize. This first volume in "The Americans" trilogy defines the unique qualities of the American nation and redisco...