Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours
by Emily Cockayne

Almost everyone has a neighbour.Neighbours can enrich or ruin our lives. They fascinate and worry us in equal measure. Soap operas watched by millions...

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport
by John Barrow

What can maths tell us about sports? 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport sheds light on the mysteries of running, jumping...

London In The Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing
by Jerry White

London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
by Ian Mortimer

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime...

Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and his Italian Ambassador
by Catherine Fletcher

Divorce. Deceit. Diplomacy.1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into th...

Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and his Italian Ambassador
by Catherine Fletcher

1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he...

The First Crusade: The Call from the East
by Peter Frankopan

In 1096, an expedition of extraordinary scale and ambition set off from Western Europe on a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Three years later, after a j...

Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup
by Christopher de Bellaigue

* On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muh...

Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
by Paul Hendrickson

'A man who let who let his own insides get eaten out by the diseases of fame had dreamed new books on this boat. He'd taught his sons to reel in some...

Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari‘a Law
by Sadakat Kadri

* Almost 1400 years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God's law - the sharia - its earthly interpreters are still arguing over what it mean...