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'Heart-stopping . . . The book is both forensic and a page-turner, and ultimately deeply tragic, for Ireland as much as for the murder victim.' - MICHAEL PORTILLO
'Gripping ...
Most strongly associated with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is often stated that Britain's policy of appeasement was instituted in the 1930s in the ...
He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with ...
A portrait of a radical age via the writers who gather around a publisher's dining table - from William Wordsworth to Mary Wollstonecraft
Longlisted for ...
Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end ...
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
'An incredible work of scholarship' - Sathnam Sanghera
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and ...
The mythology and folklore of England is as old as the land itself, rich in symbolism and full of tales of quests and heroic daring-do ...
'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'
Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian
'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'
Mihir Bose, Irish Times
'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and ...
Kingmakers but never kings, traitors at the heart of power, innocents married for the sake of family ambition - meet the House of Dudley
Every Tudor ...
The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson ...
'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities.' Dan Snow
The reclaimed ...
A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence brings Townshend's acclaimed Irish trilogy to a close
In the aftermath of the horrors ...
Eight kings of England have borne the name Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne: Two seized the crown ...
New in paperback - The first biography of Alfred the Great's son, the forgotten king who was crucial to uniting England.
The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution
The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ...
