Paperbacks

Synopsis Subtitled : The Life of a Roman Town. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize 2008. The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius i...

Synopsis Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed bestseller, now in paperback, James Hawes tells the story of Europe's most...

Synopsis Subtitled : Brexit & The Politics of Pain. With a New Afterword : Amity Island: The Unsettling of a Nation. A fierce, mordantly funny ...

Synopsis In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Ita...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. 'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops. T...

Synopsis Subtitled : Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940. Part of The Pelican History of Art Series edited by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. Professo...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016. A Radio 4 Book of the Week. In the spring of 1993,...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Vikings From Scandinavia to The Silk Roads. A Sunday Times Bestseller & The Times History Book of The Year 2021. Follo...

Synopsis Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan P...

Synopsis Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war...

Synopsis On September 11, 1944, four American soldiers from the Fifth Armoured Division crossed the River Our and entered Hitler's Third Reich - th...

Synopsis For two and half thousand years the ancient Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. The archetypal `ba...

Synopsis Full Title : The Somme - The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs. The offensive on the Somme took place between July a...

Synopsis Costa Book of The Year 2018. A Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2019. The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland dur...

Synopsis It all started with a long distance cycle ride. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their ...

Synopsis The British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2017. Winner :Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.JQ-Wingate Literary Prize.Hay Fes...

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 Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. In 49 B.C . . . the seven hundred and fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar cross...