'An epic new history . . . a work of epic scholarship, breathtaking range, and piercing originali...

The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries.'The greatest British ...

The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, i...

The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, i...

Vaughan Williams

'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously ...

Taking a panoramic view from the days of Thucydides up to the present, Heffer analyses the motive...

Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at t...

Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD at that university in ...

Simon Heffer's history of modern Britain goes on, creating vivid portraits of the main protagonis...

50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fasci...

'Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.''We must avoid vulgarities like '...

An ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian Age-and the Victorian mind-by a master hi...

A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and...