Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party
by Martin Pugh

* Appearing at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! provides an original and challenging interpretation of Labou...

The Future History of the Arctic
by Charles Emmerson

'For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine—these ar...

The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past
by Richard Fortey

'I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past. From Paddington Station a Great Western locomotive took me on a journey westwards from London furthe...

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
by Philip Ball

* All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history. But why they do so, why music can excite deep passions, and how we make sense of ...

Tiepolo Pink
by Roberto Calasso

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vas...

Pitt the Elder: Man of War
by Edward Pearce

This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 inv...

A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603
by Simon Schama

‘History clings tight but it also kicks loose,’ writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain’s p...

A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776
by Simon Schama

* 'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This v...

A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000
by Simon Schama

‘While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...’ The compelling opening words to The Fate of the Empire, set the tone and agenda for the...

Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
by Jonathan Phillips

Holy war: Christianity versus Islam. Brutality, greed, honour, chivalry; the clink of chain mail, the clatter of hooves, the call of the muezzin. Such...