Non-Fiction

Synopsis Subtitled : The Fight For Freedom. A New York Times Bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017. . . . "Their paths ne...

Synopsis Full Title : Lessons from history : hidden heroes and villains of the past, and what we can learn from them. Lessons from History is a j...

Synopsis Edited by Peter Stepan. In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents more than ninety of history's most memorable photographs - from t...

Synopsis George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured ...

Synopsis Full title - Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East. The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generati...

Synopsis Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position...

Synopsis New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atl...

Synopsis Paying tribute to 'the essential contribution of sailors and their ships to the evolving history of the human world’, Brian Lavery’s his...

Synopsis Full Subtitle : 22nd January 1879 : Minute by Minute. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes ...

Synopsis Edited by Leslie Bethell. Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about th...

Synopsis Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography credited to South African President Nelson Mandela. It was ghostwritten by Richard Stengel and ...

Synopsis Ever since people first took to the water, boats and ships have had a unique influence on our history. Ship unveils the drama, splendour...

Synopsis Subtitled :  Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit ...

Synopsis " . . . Myths are stories that are based on tradition. Some may have factual origins, while others are completely fictional. But myths a...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Quest For The North Pole. In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an islan...

Synopsis In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current ...

Synopsis Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to tell the ultimate origin story. Blending geography...

Synopsis A Pelican Introduction. What makes us human? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has ...

Synopsis Selected by Stephen Pickles. A beautifully packaged annual featuring the best of old favourites, "Look and Learn" fondly remembered by t...

Synopsis Subtitled : Great Commanders of The Ancient & Medieval World. Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Rom...

Synopsis The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination...

Synopsis The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, trac...

Synopsis Edited by Charlotte Mosley. The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and...

Synopsis The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st Century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up o...