Phantom Atlas
£25.00The astonishing story of the maps and atlases throughout history that got it completely wrong
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah ; Abridged, Introduced and Annotated by Tim Mackinto
£10.99A classic of travel writing, discover Ibn Battutah’s epic journey in a beautiful hardback edition.
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
£20.00The enthralling story of an extraordinary princess who became a sufragette and revolutionary, who lived through some of the most eventful times in British and Indian history.
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Second World War
£16.99The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War.
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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant
£25.00Reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power, Thomas Cromwell was also a loving husband, father and guardian, a witty and generous host, and a loyal and devoted servant. With new insights into Cromwell’s character, his family life and his close relationships with both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII, Tracy Borman, joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever.
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Lawrence In Arabia
£25.00This is a thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt, and the secret game to control the Middle East.
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Little History Of The World
£17.99In ‘A Little History of the World’ Ernst Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. There emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, the spread and limitations of science and tribes evolving towards society.
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Birds In A Cage
£20.00This is the inspiring story of how a passion for birds enabled four young men to escape the horror of internment in a German PoW camp – and brought about an extraordinary moment of cooperation and mutual understanding between them and their captors.
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History Of The World In 100 Objects
£16.99Neil MacGregor’s radio series ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ has been a unique event that has set a benchmark for public service broadcasting in the UK and across the world. This book is the tie-in to that event, reproducing the scripts describing the objects that made us who we are.