Gaius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman general of all time. Although he never bore the title, historians since Suetonius have judged him to be, in practice, the very first 'emperor' - af...więcej »
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR‘If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson&rsquo...więcej »
'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' - Sunday ExpressSnuggle up and escape with Jenny Colgan to the beautiful island of Mure this winterOn the tiny Scottis...więcej »
When estranged twin sisters switch homes for a week, they learn more about each other's lives than they ever imagined.You can learn a lot about someone when you swap houses. . .więcej »
This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity...więcej »
No one speaks of the grace year.It's forbidden.We're told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boys lose their minds, and drive the wives mad with jealousy. That's ...więcej »
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...'Stops you dead in your tracks ... An absolute revelation' Sue Black, b...więcej »
In the years after World War I, the defeated and much-reduced German Army developed new clothing and personal equipment that drew upon the lessons learned in the trenches. In place of the wide vari...więcej »
Black Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey's bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of Honour, The Gaze and The Bastard of Istanbul which ...więcej »
‘Why can’t you find a nice man to be happy with?’ my mother is saying. We are walking down Ninth Avenue after a noon-hour concert at Lincoln Centre. ‘Why do you pick one sch...więcej »
Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pa...więcej »
A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.Throughout history, there has been a lively crossover between show bu...więcej »
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing th...więcej »
This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bl...więcej »
This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inhe...więcej »
Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip of Korea.One day Hana sees a...więcej »
The Jedi are the most loyal servants of the Empire.Two decades ago, Jedi clans clashed in service to feuding lords. Sickened by this endless cycle, a sect of Jedi rebelled, seeking to c...więcej »
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.Wi...więcej »
'His heart racing, Henry took a step towards the enemy line. A shape loomed towards him in the darkness...'Travel back in time to a world engulfed by war, as historian Dominic Sandbrook...więcej »
Alexander's mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny.'Alexander of Macedon has one, wild dream: to rule the worl...więcej »