The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s
by Peter Doggett

* No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Through his multi-faceted and inven...

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis

* If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it e...

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it end...

The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall
by Jeffrey Sachs

One of the world's most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential read...

The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall
by Jeffrey Sachs

One of the world's most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential read...

Of The People, By The People: A New History of Democracy
by Roger Osborne

'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' Churchill had more reason than m...

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...

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...

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...

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...