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In August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky's study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramon Mercader - an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin.But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a decade-long global hunt: a story...

How life was lived in one of Paris's great hotels, before, during and after the Second World WarThe Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only 'grand' hotel on the city's bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. Andre Gide...

'THE GOLD STANDARD OF NARRATIVE HISTORY' - DAN SNOWHow could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle , on...

Based on the true story of a Jewish barman-cum-spy who served the Nazis in the Ritz Paris during occupation - for fans of Anthony Doerr and Amor Towles.An Immediate Bestseller - A Bloomberg Best Book of 2025'Philippe Collin is a magnificent storyteller. This novel fascinates at every turn.' ElleWhen...

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerAn award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenti...

The bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches with a gripping, vividly told journey into his family's wartime pastMalcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph's wartime adventures- he'd been a prisoner in Italy, and he'd cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. Apart from...

The gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever.'A salve for our current reactionary times.' ANDREW HARTMANFrom the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fid...

The story of a hotel. The story of a nation.When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the Inter-Continental is still standing. It has endured Soviet occupation, multip...

'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals' - The Times Literary SupplementIn Armageddon, one of Britain's most highly regarded historians tells the epic story of the bloody last eight months of the war in Europe.In 1944 German forces suffered catastrophic defeats during the battles for Ho...

Witness the best and the worst of humanity in.On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city’s university...

A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary SpringNow part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of K nigsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel...

A brief and thrilling introduction to Japan from one of the country's leading British historiansIn this enormously enjoyable introduction to a remarkable country, Christopher Harding traces Japan's rich history over several millennia. Beginning with its earliest coastal communities through to the sp...

They weren't invited to the revolution - so they led one of their own.Beneath the roar of cannons and cries for liberty, a quieter but equally powerful force was rising. Women of the French Revolution uncovers the fearless women who shaped one of history's most pivotal upheavals.From market stalls t...

This title covers the turbulent history of France from 1774 to 1802 and the revolutionary events and larger than life individuals whose ideas and actions sent shock waves around Europe. Each enquiry tackles a discrete topic which together build a rounded and balanced picture of the causes, the cours...

Sifting through layers and layers of myth and legend, Peter Cozzens - the award-winning author of The Earth is Weeping - unveils the true face of Deadwood, South Dakota, the storied mining town that sprang up in early 1876, and was made famous by the HBO series of the same name.Built on land brazenl...

From the bestselling author of The Bronx is Burning, a superlative account of the New York at a dramatic turning point in its historyNew York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reel...

A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years agoIn 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking trea...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER''Astonishing. Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan'' Daily Mail''A rollicking read'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times''Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining'' Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker April, 1943: a sardine fisherman spots the corpse of a British so...

'a master class in eyewitness storytelling. this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A ScenarioThe stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of this compelling minute-by-minute account o...

In the heart of Santiago, the infamous 38 Londres Street becomes the haunting backdrop for a riveting tale that intertwines the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London, the post-war life of senior SS officer Walther Rauff in Chilean Patagonia and the sinister connections between the two men.Rauff, resp...

On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years.Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine-g...

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration - the fateful final journey of Captain James CookIn July 1776, Captain James Cook began his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, in Hawaii, Cook wa...

A gripping true crime investigation into the murder of the relatives of Albert Einstein, set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Florence during WWIIItaly, August 1944. A unit of German soldiers arrives at a villa near Florence. Villa Il Focardo is home to Robert Einstein, cousin to the most famou...

This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encountersFrom the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of o...