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A Viking Odyssey
The world was first unified 1,000 years ago. When Leif the Lucky and his Viking explorers linked Europe and America with their settlement at Vinland it marked a profound change in the world. Suddenly, almost every region on earth was in touch with its neighbours,...
Unlost
Gail Muller was told she’d be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. At forty-one she set out to hike one of the world’s toughest treks, The Appalachian Trail – a 2,200-mile journey that would help her reclaim her life and heal her mind and body. An inspiring, moving...
1939: The World We Left Behind
History is based on choices, not truth. The way we see things now is not always how they looked at the time. The task Robert Kee set himself in his chronicle of 1939 was to cut across the demarcation lines of history, to capture the way people perceived the events of...
Tales of Two Cities
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they both vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet here Jonathan Conlin uncovers the intriguing...
The Day Diana Died
Over 3.8 million downloads New York Times bestsellers, Christopher Andersen draws upon important sources - many of whom are agreeing to speak for the first time - to re-create in vivid and often startling detail the events leading up to that fateful night in Paris....
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a puzzle to everyone. The nuclear physicist most responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb, he was a genius both scientifically and otherwise. His standards were impossibly high. He read widely in many languages, wrote poetry, and did...
Rooster
“Fans of frontier arcana will revel” in this biography of the Arkansas cowboy, outlaw, and immortal Wild West frontiersman (Publishers Weekly). Celebrated in Charles Portis’s classic novel and three hit films, the real “Rooster” Cogburn was as bold, brash, and...
Another Forgotten Child
A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please Don’t Take My Baby, coming out on April 25th. Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her...
To Hell and Back
Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.
Camp X
Camp X was the first secret agent training camp ever to be built in North America. Established early in the Second World War by Britain’s Special Operations Executive on the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, it trained dozens of Americans and Canadians in the arts of...
You’ll Never Find Us
In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a...
The Enigma Spy
The Cambridge Five – the most infamous spy ring in British history. Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean were the four. But who was the fifth man? John Cairncross, born 1913 in Scotland, was the brilliant scholarship boy who made it to Cambridge...
One Man and His Dog
The amazing true story of a Czech airman and his Alsatian puppy who braved the dangers of World War Two together. “a delightful story” The New York Times Perfect for readers of Will Chesney, Damien Lewis and Robert Weintraub. On February 12, 1940, Jan Bozdech and his...
The Way West
The Texas Rangers, Forty-Niners, the Alamo and clashes with Native Americans — the American West has a diverse and remarkable history. An ideal book for fans of Michael Punke, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. James A. Crutchfield’s The Way West is a bold anthology of Western...
Making the Rounds
What was it like to survive an illegal abortion, come out as a lesbian, and train to become a doctor in the late 1960s and early ’70s—before Roe v. Wade, before Title IX, and in a largely homophobic nation? Kirkus Reviews’ Best 100 Indie Books of 2022, is the story of...
Not Tonight, Josephine
“…exceptionally entertaining writing…” Two Brits, George and Mark, set off from New York City to explore the back roads of America. In this calamity-ridden travel tale, George sets out in true clichéd fashion to discover the real America. Throw in plenty of run-ins...
Pillar of Fire
Early in May 1940, after months of phoney war, the armies of the Third Reich burst out of the Ardennes into northern France. Brilliantly conceived and executed, Operation Sichelschnitt was one of the most astonishing military plans of all time. Cutting through weak...
You’ll Forget This Ever Happened
Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice. In You’ll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the...
In My Mother’s Footsteps
‘Beautiful. Poignant. Phenomenal…I cried and I smiled…Truly a gem.’ Goodreads reviewer A moving and heartbreaking journey of a daughter discovering her Palestinian roots and recovering her mother’s beloved past. Perfect for fans of The Bookseller of Kabul and The...
Cowboys of the Americas
Winner of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame’s 1991 Western Heritage Award for Non-Fiction. What was it actually like to be a cowboy? The blazing gunfights and the dangerous lifestyles of these all-American figures have captured the imagination of the public for...
The Road to Culloden Moor
How did Charles Edward Stuart and his failed Jacobite rising find such an enduring place in our popular memory? How did a half-Polish prince, who was born in Rome and spoke with an Italian accent, become the Bonnie Prince Charlie of ballad, poem and song? Was he...
Dear Dana
When Amy Daughters reconnected with her old pal Dana on Facebook, she had no idea how it would change her life. Though the two women hadn’t had any contact in thirty years, it didn’t take them long to catch up—and when Amy learned that Dana’s son Parker was doing a...
Vlad the Impaler
Who was the real man who inspired the Dracula legend? In spring 1460, a contemporary wrote, 'untold abuses, damage hardly reparable, sad murders, mutilations, sorrows' were visited upon the city of Brasov, by 'the unfaithful cruel tyrant Dracula, who calls himself...
Dunkirk to Belsen
In this extraordinary book, the soldiers who served in the Durham Light Infantry recount their personal experiences of serving in World War II. Following the remarkable story of a ‘band of brothers’ who fought in every major land campaign, the soldiers tell their...
A Way Through the Wilderness
Merchants, bankers, planters, soldiers, Kaintucks and gamblers, all were tied in one way or another to that enchanting, storied, and often mysterious highway of the American Frontier: the Natchez Trace. Beginning life as a shadowy Indian trail, the road became the...
Lost Britain
In exploring the history of forgotten Britain, author David Long both mourns their loss and celebrates the achievements of engineers and architects of past generations, revealing some extraordinary tales that we would do well to remember. Lost Britain tells the...
Cruise Ship SOS
What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea? Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spending a year as a repatriation doctor, he's now sailing off around the world as a ship's doctor - and with 3,000 passengers and crew to look after he's in for the most...
The Making of Eastern Europe
The characteristics of Eastern Europe as we know it today were formed long before the Soviet Union came into existence. In searching for the origins of Eastern Europe’s difficulty in adapting to democracy, this sweeping history ranges from the present day to the time...
Crown of Thistles
This book tells the story behind one of history’s greatest rivalries: Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of the relationship between two formidable women, Elizabeth I and...
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz
The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, and I felt an ember of hope. If I could make myself useful, helping these horses, maybe I could stay alive.” In the darkest moment of history, one child found the courage...
Locomotion: The Railway Revolution
"The effects of the railways on society are too universal and long-lasting to be compressed within a single volume. Like some many-headed Hindu god they contain life and death, creation and destruction, squalor and magnificence. All I can do is to sketch some of the...
Explorers of the Nile
A “highly enjoyable” account of six men, and one woman, who journeyed into uncharted and treacherous African terrain to find the source of the White Nile (The Washington Post). Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover...
The Excellent Doctor Blackwell
When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble’s remark – ‘What, trust a woman doctor – never!’ Yet by the time Dr Blackwell died...
Disease and History
A newly updated edition of a classic in the history of medicine with information on Covid-19. Arising from collaboration between a doctor and a historian, Disease and History offers the general reader a wide-ranging and accessible account of the ways in which disease...
Prove Them Wrong
???#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL & INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER ??? YOU NEED TO STOP. This is a book for people who want to take action. At twelve years old, Dre Evans felt proud to participate in his first drive-by shooting. Everyone craves belonging and purpose in life. How...
To Kill Hitler
For twelve years Adolf Hitler ruled Germany with an iron fist. It was the period of the “good” German, where most were going along with the regime, controlled by the strident coercion of state propaganda or the brutality of the SS, overcome by lethargy or convinced...