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Murder at the Castle

The Shortest History of India

The Shortest History of Italy

The Shortest History of Migration

The Shortest History of Music

Why We Love American Football

The Shortest History of Ancient Rome

Why We Love Baseball

Mortimer's A-Zs of English History

The Shortest History of England

The Shortest History of Economics

The Shortest History of Japan

The Shortest History of England

The Shortest History of Europe

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

The pervasive state vigilance of Chinese citizens is revealed in full detail in this journey into...

The Shortest History of Sex

The Shortest History of India

Silesian Station

From our earliest wanderings to the rise of the digital nomad, here is the story of human migrati...

A new edition of the classic 1994 novel, an observant comedy of smalltown America, with a new int...

In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut,...

Cool, böse, abgebrüht Postkartenidylle am Kap der guten Hoffnung? Das Ende der Apartheid ist besi...

In Hunts in Dreams - a follow-up to his acclaimed debut The End of Vandalism - Tom Drury returns ...

Amidst the turbulence and invasions, upheaval and dissent that characterise British history, one ...

The Shortest History of Democracy

Brilliant Isles

Abject Quizzery

The People's Favourite Poems

Tells the extraordinary story of the formative periods of five of the most important British arti...

Year of the Drought

The Shortest History Of War

Published to mark the bicentenary of Wagner's birth, this is a major and original new study of th...

Wedding Station

Historian and Essex champion Gillian Darley takes us on a vivid personaltour, from the seaside pi...

The denouement of the World War II John Russell series, set in 1945 as Hitler's Third Reich stand...

The story of modern football through the key events, characters and developments that have set it...

A young bartender, Pierre Hunter, falls in love with the mysterious Stella Rosmarin and, after fi...

Provides animal-lovers with a species-by-species exploration into the minds and emotions of anima...

It's 1916 and after two years of war in Europe, the whole world is being torn apart.Lovers are se...

Following the murder of an IT Consultant, two local villains enact a grisly crucifixion scene. DC...

Bring in the child trafficker. That's Agent Vicki Kahn's assignment, her first foreign mission fo...

A brilliant retelling of the Spanish Civil War seen through the eyes of a range of prominent figu...

Rosa Hyde is the daughter of a time-traveller, stuck in the year 1945. Forced to live through it ...

TOWER BLOCKS. FLYOVERS. STREETS IN THE SKY. ONCE, THIS WAS THE FUTURE.'Never has a trip from Croy...

The heart-stopping final instalment in the bestselling 'Station' series from the popular author. ...

The seen and unseen aspects of the past and present of Essex are celebrated by BBC Radio 3 and 4 ...