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'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans1,411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin, contains all-new facts from...

An eminent literary critic explores five American classics How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a "classic"? And...

Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks....

"A close reading of the plays that tries to map the creases and folds in Shakespeare's mysterious, elusive brain."- New York Times Book Review A. D. Nuttall's study of Shakespeare's...

As a child in Russia, Vladimir Nabokov enjoyed conjuring: "I loved doing simple tricks--turning water into wine, that kind of thing." In this engrossing book Michael Wood explores the blend...

There were dinosaurs everywhere! Some of them soared in the sky, some of them stomped or scurried across the land, and some roamed the deep seas.This beautifully illustrated book is...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes the highly anticipated, heart-pounding thriller with twists you'll never see coming...'Dark, twisty, and wildly...

THE SCANDALOUS TRUTH BEHIND THE CROWNFROM THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CATHERINE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES: THE BIOGRAPHYFrom Elizabeth II to soon-to-be King William, The Windsor Legacy offers...

Since 2012 Robert O'Byrne has produced theirishaesthete. com, an award-winning site exploring the country's extensive architectural heritage through words and pictures, In 2024 Lilliput Press published a collection of his...

When James Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. John Banville described Wood as a 'a close reader of...

States of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose's striking contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Why has so little attention been paid to Israel/Palestine and South Africa,...

Jesuit, soldier, academic, trade unionist, social radical, lifelong Irish Language promoter, friend of the Travellers, National Chaplain of Pax Christi, advocate for the revival of the Western Rail Corridor from...

'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony BeevorAfter publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a...

One of golf's most popular and funny personalities reveals the ups and downs of a life playing the world's most infuriating sport. 'Even professional golfers hit bad shots. I guess...

Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a...

'A beautifully paced psychological thriller. Twisty, engrossing, sensitive and dark. EXCELLENT' Will Dean, author of Dark PinesAll mothers have secrets...some are unforgivableKate Marshall lives an enviable life. Married to handsome,...

Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into...

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues...

This collection of writings taken from MILITARY HISTORY QUARTERLY gathers together 45 writers, some world-famous, some unknown, to give a brand new perspective on the Second World War. The reader...

The Times' Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShortlisted for the Military History Magazine Book of the...