History tells us that in 69 AD, Nero fled his palace in Rome, stabbed himself in the throat with a pen, and was trampled to death by horses in a muddy ditch. But here's another possibility: Nero did n
Married six times, all to women named Brenda, Otis Lee Crenshaw's bourbon-fuelled odyssey takes him from the high mountains of East Tennessee to the bottom of the music charts. A man not above faking
This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games, and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalio
Since its first broadcast in the 1920s, the shipping forecast on BBC radio has inspired poems, songs, and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of
From Jackie Robinson to Billie Jean King, a?cavalcade of sports heroism?celebrating virtues that transcend winning and losing?Explaining?why athletics, at their?best, can be?so inspirational, this is
Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy?her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities?and in her early years li
The sequel to Never Had It So Good completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s,?weaving together?politics, sports, art, fashion, social trends, language, and popular c
Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of a fabulous new novel by the author of Matter and The Wasp Factory The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!
A reissue of?Iain Banks'?second novel?three separate stories which unfold to?come intricately?and masterfully?together?Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from t
An epic novel about the extraordinary (true) life of China's greatest woman poet -- a thousand-year-old story of love and loss brought vividly to life.
In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1820, and the landscape of England is un
* Brilliant and incisive, HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD leaves us in no doubt that Karl Marx is as much a thinker for our century as he was for the preceding two
An explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation - now with a groundbreaking new afterword.
*A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World.
The biography of an idea: that many of the problems we face - from teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics and are capable of sudden and dramatic change due to their inherent volat
