The seminal history of Ireland’s most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium.
With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 19...
The intriguing story of how wireless was invented by Guglielmo Marconi – and how it amused Queen Victoria, saved the lives of the Titanic survivors, tracked down criminals and began the ra...
Stories of a Small Town Farm Boy takes author Eric Duling's 1960s childhood on a big-family farm and brings it to life starting with the story of an anxious child trying to acclimate in...
A narrative history of how Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa came to be the most famous in the world – and one of the most powerful cultural icons of our time.
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Soma Mukhopadhyay, like so many mothers, would not accept the conventional wisdom when her son Tito was diagnosed with severe autism. Defying the prognosis that Tito was incapable of a...
The first comprehensive history of the UK government overseas intelligence service, MI6, by an acknowledged expert and author of the highly acclaimed Smear!
Epitomised in the pu...