Nonfiction

The secret of SOE's code war revealed for the first time! 'As a comedy about the British at war, Leo Marks's book ranks with the fiction of Anthony Powell and...

'An inspiring must-read for anyone who is searching for hope in darkness of loss, grief or addiction' Gillian AndersonSarah Hiscox's deep self-esteem and addiction issues began in childhood when she...

Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at...

In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison explores the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living - the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments...

These essays attempt to offer new ideas about Shakespeare's tragedies. The author argues for the primacy of patterns drawn from the most common human experience. Asking why Shakespeare makes Hamlet...

Did you know?Ireland's only sea battle, the Battle of Tory Island, was fought off the Donegacoast in 1798.The first casualties of the 1916 Easter Rising were three members of the...

The first volume of a ground-breaking and truly global trilogy on the Second World War, from an exciting, prize-winning academic.Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises threatened world order...

More than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley, and Graham Swift, are arranged in alphabetical order, each with a short article on...

Henry Yorke led a double life. Under his own name he was managing director of his father's engineering company; as Henry Green he was the author of some of the...

This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB...

Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful...

When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a "tough...

Frank Kermode returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how urgent and powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis and...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris will lead you straight to the best attractions Paris has on offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations and a free pull-out city map, the guide explores...

In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers. Wood re-appraises the writing of such figures...

Was it inevitable that France should become a republic? In this fascinating account of the period 1814-48, Munro Price attempts to answer this most difficult of questions. Using substantial unpublished...

This highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.

Dan Davin here sets down his recollections of seven writers who were all close friends: Dylan Thomas, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Louis MacNeice, Joyce Cary, W. R. Rodgers, Enid Starkie, and Itzik...

Watching the Door is the memoir of an ordinary young man who drifted into a war zone, made it his home and, somehow, emerged unscathed.After Kevin Myers graduated from university...

Bottled babies, wooden legs, walking coffins, corpses, umbrellas, waxworks, locks and living furniture - these are a few of the obsessions the author uncovers while investigating the strange poetry of...

In 1993 Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with dementia. With Rose's memory deteriorating, a whole world was in the process of being lost. In this work she looks at...

This book sets out to expose and analyse a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using...

THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.'An exceptional broadcaster' - Guardian | 'Consistently, forensically, brilliant' - Emily MaitlisSomething has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy...

"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that...

Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' version of events to report the real stories of our time. The centerpiece of...