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By Joseph O'Connor The year is 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at N...

By Robin McKie Written into our facial features is a story going back generations. It is the story of who we are and where we are from - th...

By Susan Foister Hans Holbein (1497-1543) is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century. His prolific production of p...

By Charles Khan It is hard to let go of Pythagoras. He has meant so much to so many for so long. I can with confidence say to readers of thi...

G. W. Dahlquist A spy, a killer, and an impostor - this book features three extraordinary heroes. Miss Temple didn't come to the city f...

Gianluca Vialli Gabriele Marcotti Football lies at the heart of popular culture in both England and Italy. It is played, watched, written ...

By Colin Thubron There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzsta...

By Evan Thomas In 1943, American sailors and soldiers entering the harbor at Tulagi, the front-line U.S. Navy base in the South Pacific,...

By James Gaines In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment....

By Tobias Jones The original Utopia, Sir Thomas More’s, was a refuge from poverty. Modern readers find its regulations authoritarian. But th...

By Hugh Brogan In 1927 Paul Valéry wrote that Europe dreams of being ruled by an American Commission, and for many Europeans America is stil...

By Pervez Musharraf If there is a single consistent theme in Pervez Musharraf’s memoir, it is the familiar military dogma that Pakistan has ...

Geling Yan This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists upon his ...

Ian Rankin July 2005, and the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland. With daily marches, demonstrations, and scuffles, the police are at ful...

By John Stubbs John Donne's life story is inextricably tied up with the fabric of a society in the throes of religious persecution. His...

Dianne Setterfield Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them i...

By Michael Wood In 1936 Freud wrote a letter to Romain Rolland, offering him a speculation about a particular memory as a 70th birthday gif...

By Michael Berg The real secret of a happy and fulfilled life, revealed by renowned Kabbalist Michael Berg, author of the acclaimed and bes...

By Alex Games ( Buy this book and any other 5 of your choice, for just $1 ) 'Balderdash and Piffle' looks into words and phrases, th...

By Delvin Dresser Ralph Mosco often felt different from the other children his age. The son of a preacher, Ralph lived his life a little dif...