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

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.'John von NeumannMathematics can ...

1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
by Ian Mortimer

* Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justi...

A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
by Nicholas Stern

* Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we liv...

A Genius for Failure: The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon
by Paul O'Keeffe

* Haydon’s first attempt at suicide ended when the low calibre bullet fired from his pistol fractured his skull but failed to penetrate his brain. * H...

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...

'A Senseless, Squalid War': Voices from Palestine 1945 - 1948
by Norman Rose

* The troubles in Palestine between the end of the Second World War and the declaration of the state of Israel on 14 May 1948 ruptured Middle Eastern ...

American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
by Nigel Hamilton

Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars became a classic of classical times: a virtuoso literary portrait gallery, remarkable not only for its frank dissections...

Amexica: War Along the Borderline
by Ed Vulliamy

Amexica provides the first full account of the terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border. An area of land more than 2,000 miles long and 100 miles w...