(Paperback, Unabridged edition)

Acclaimed biographer Linda Porter on Henry VIII's last queen, showing her to have been a more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto been realized.

(Hardback, Main)

A sweeping 5,000-year history of Iraq, from the reign of Gilgamesh in c.2900 BC to the coup that overthrew the monarchy in 1958.

(, New edition)

This text provides an account of the secret aerospace technology which was developed in Nazi Germany and had the potential to drastically affect the outcome of World War II.

(Hardback, Main)

An authoritative and entertaining history of the Edwardian age, told through its politics and popular culture

(, Main)

Following the failure of the 1848 revolution a great many political refugees headed for England - the richly cosmopolitan hub of an Empire, and the commercial-industrial locus of the world.

(Paperback)

(, Main)

A major and definitive history of countercultural London by our pre-eminent chronicler of the cultural underground.

'Passionate, unashamedly personal, frequently ludicrous, often unbelievable, always fascinating... A rollicking good read.' Time Out

A timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience - a panorama of its history, art, literature and daily life.

100 years after its sinking, Greg King and Penny Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I.

(Hardback)

A devastating look at how mental health 'care' has been historically used to oppress the Black community in the United States - told through the prism of a segregated asylum, Crownsville Hospital for the Negro Insane in Maryland.

What made a beautiful and intelligent woman go from being in love with Zionist leader Arlosoroff to marrying Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda and a ferocious anti-Semite How could the devoted mother of six, the poster-child of family values during the Third Reich, turn into Medea and poison these six children

(Paperback)

This murder story, starts as a whodunit then becomes a whydunit. It takes the reader on a journey across the landscape of social and political tensions in the years leading up to the invasion of Parihaka in 1881. It is also, in a sense, a sequel to Over the Mountains of the Sea .

(Hardback)

300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

An explosive and revelatory account of the 1984 Miners' strike.

(Paperback)

An unconventional view of the First World War from inside the glittering social salon of Downing Street: a story of unrequited love, loss, sacrifice, scandal and the Prime Minister's wife, Margot Asquith.

(, Main)

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

With a blend of narrative and analysis, this book explores the extent to which mercenaries have been used, from Sumer to Rome, and the reasons governments hired them when they could conscript native citizens.

(Paperback)

A story of hardship and heartache in the rough Pilbara outback. This compelling memoir from Florence Corrigan, who grew up moving from camp to camp as her parents followed itinerant and contract work around remote stations, describes the harsh lifestyle they led with few luxuries.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000