Matthew Smith

Supports the theory that the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother Robert, and the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Mary Jo Kopechne were not the resu...

Patrick Benham

An intriguing account of the life and times of the extraordinary characters who were drawn to Glastonbury, the Isle of Avalon, at the turn of the 20th century a...

Christopher Hitchens

A celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’, these thirty-plus essays on writers f...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE to 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin ...

Bob Fenster

Geddes and Grosset

A comprehensive, illustrated account of the fascinating mythology and ancient history of one of the world's oldest--and longest surviving--civilisations. Th...

Michael Bar-Zohar , Nissim Mishal

Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal return with the intensely absorbing, fast-paced story of thirty of the boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces. Packe...

Adam Nicolson

In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British an...

John Darwin

Tamerlane was the last of the 'world conquerors': his armies looted and killed from the shores of the Mediterranean to the frontier of China. Nomad hors...

Guy Walters

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply...

John Canning

In this volume are gathered on hundreds of the most outstanding lives of the nineteenth century throughout the world. The men and women of action are here as we...

Eric hobsbawm

This collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a sel...