The First World War, 1916. Ted Foley, ship's boy, is captured by the Germans after his destroyer HMS Nomad is sunk in the great naval Battle of Jutland. Nobody gets away from the PoW camp at...

From tired old clichés to meaningless jargon, the English language is under attack. Politicians dupe us with deliberately evasive language. Bureaucrats bore us into submission. Language is all...

Firefox was the supersonic thriller of a reckless Western scheme to hijack Soviet Russia’s most lethally sophisticated warplane. 'Firefox Down' is the stunning sequel to that daring undercover...

Beginning with the founding myths of Romulus and Remus and a succession of probably fictitious kings, Anthony Everitt charts the development of Rome from its origins as a small market town in the...

Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is at the heart of this first volume of Simon Schama’s grippingly written history. He poses questions of compelling...

Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn comes into his life. His longing for her eclipses...

Set during the 1930s, ‘Zorba the Greek’ is one of the major philosophical novels of the twentieth century. The narrator, a young Greek academic, travels to Crete to claim an inheritance and...

Paul Sturgis is a retired bank manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only relative,...

This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary love stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth presents a unique portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the love of his life,...

A desperate escape from Romania after the fall of the Ceausescu... a violent introduction to the new rules of warfare on the borders of Afghanistan... then an icy struggle for survival among the...

What makes people want to solve a mystery? Listen to these seven stories and you might decide there are some things that can never be explained. Find out how one woman checked into a Parisian...

The model of the boat that Grandad is making for Gavin’s birthday is perfect down to the tiniest detail. All she needs is the perfect name. Gavin chooses ‘Selkie’ – after the mythical...

The two men in the park look and live like tramps, though they call themselves night-watchmen. But whatever they are, Henry knows he will have to discover more about their strange lives or die of...

The late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history’s great popes. But in ‘The Pope in Winter’, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the working of his...

Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three...