Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries
£10.99A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse.
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The stories old towns tell
£11.99A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them – but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history.
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The wild men
£10.99The incredible story of the first Labour administration and the ‘wild men’ who shook up the British establishment, with a fully updated new Preface.
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Impossible city
£10.99Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city’s notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family’s neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change. This century, Paris has globalised, gentrified, and been shocked into realising its role as the crucible of civilisational conflict. Sometimes it’s a multicultural paradise, and sometimes it isn’t. This decade, Parisians have lived through a sequence of shocks: terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by gilets jaunes, and the pandemic.
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Charles III
£22.00The definitive, page-turning story of King Charles’s reign, revealing the truth behind the news stories as the new monarch set out to make his mark, from royal expert and bestselling author Robert Hardman.
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A short history of British architecture
£26.99The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surrounded by magnificent buildings of eclectic styles. ‘A Short History of British Architecture’ is the gripping and untold story of why Britain looks the way it does, from prehistoric Stonehenge to the lofty towers of today.
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Bring on United
£22.00How Manchester United conquered all, by the players who won everything
With a foreword by Manchester United assistant manager Ruud van Nistelrooy
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Every valley
£25.00London, 1741. An actress mired in scandal plans her escape from an abusive husband. A penniless sea captain sets out to rescue the city’s abandoned infants. An African Muslim and former captive in the colonies becomes a celebrity. A grieving political dissident seeks release from his torment. And a great composer to kings – George Frideric Handel – now ill and straining to keep an audience’s attention, faces a decision that will secure his place in history. Evoking a pivotal moment at the birth of modernity, a time of fear, conspiracy and uprising, and featuring some of the most unusual and brilliant personalities of the eighteenth century, ‘Every Valley’ is a resonant story of hope in the darkness and the entangled lives that shaped a masterpiece.
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Poet, mystic, widow, wife
£22.00A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the mind and lives of medieval women.
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Paris in ruins
£25.00The untold story of how the disastrous events of the Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune led to the birth of Impressionism
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Ghosts of a Holy War
£10.99An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to devastate.