We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
by Martin Pugh

* Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war era boasts a coherent identity en...

The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe
by Timothy Snyder

1. The first ever biography of the extraordinarily colourful Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947). Tattooed, bisexual, crossdressing, multilingua...

The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
by Sarah Wise

* In 1887 Government inspectors were sent to explore the horrifying - often lethal - living conditions of the Old Nichol, a notorious 15-acre slum in ...

Hugo!: The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
by Bart Jones

1) The ruling elites in Venezuela and the United States are keen to paint Chavez as the heir to Castro, but the truth is more complex and more interes...

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science
by John Barrow

* Certain key images embody our understanding of life and the universe we inhabit. Some, like Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural wo...