The Rest of The World

Synopsis A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year. A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year. Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC,...

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

Synopsis Subtitled : Journeys in the Fjord Region of Northeast Greenland. An unrivalled collection of images of one of the last unsullied wildern...

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 Sunday Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award. In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestse...

Synopsis So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all life, all religion, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the...

Synopsis Subtitled : Blunderings through India & South-East Asia. A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong R...

Synopsis International Bestseller. The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study...

Synopsis Longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerising book that explores how ...

Synopsis India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is a book written by Shashi Tharoor that expresses the importance that India enjoys in t...

Synopsis Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband's work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990's, she re...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with the Dalai Lama. This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tib...