Author: Richard Woodman Publisher: Robinson Released Date: 2005 ISBN: 9781841197371View more

In a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to witness England’s cultural climates across the centuries. Before the Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons living in a wintry world wrote about...View more

Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation...View more

Drawing on first-hand accounts of crusaders, sea captains and merchants, as well as the state records, renowned historian Roger Crowley's City of Fortune is a...View more

It is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who represent Year Zero; the beginning of...View more

Harry's robot has to go to the robot hospital to get fixed. So Nan and Harry decide to make their own robot while he's being...View more

This book is Short-listed For The CWA Non Fiction Dagger. "A brilliantly researched journey, capturing the gun's strangely accepted place in human life and, far...View more

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, na�ve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled,...View more

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced...View more

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey’s THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback,...View more

As a thirteen-year-old de Rosnay read and reread Rebecca, becoming a lifelong devotee of Du Maurier's fiction. Now de Rosnay pays homage to the writer...View more

It’s a busy morning and all across London mice dressed in top hats and smart overcoats are making their way to work by bus, by...View more