Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland
by Jonathan Powell

* The Blair administration’s pursuit of a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland stands out as one of the great achievements in modern British politic...

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers
by Misha Glenny

* In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. * For three yea...

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...

Hugo!: The Hugo Chàvez 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...

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 Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future
by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

In Britain and the United States a very strange sect has seized power. They believe that we can all reach financial paradise, if only certain sacrific...

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...

Handel: The Man & His Music
by Jonathan Keates

* Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) had received little attention from bio...