Hitler’s Royal Welcome - The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski (Translated from ...

Essays in Austrian Literature by W G Sebald (Translated from German by Jo Catling) ...

The idea of the army being a safe space may strike us as strange, until you recall that China’s greatest living novelist, Yan ...

The Travels of Norman Lewis by John Hatt (ed) ...

The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau (Translated from French by Jody Gladding) ...

Within less than a decade, Charles’s ‘reign of peace’ had imploded and the two amateur impresarios found themselves on opposing sides in the ensuing civil war – Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–75) as a ...

The Autobiography by Pope Francis (Translated from Italian by Richard Dixon); Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church by Philip Shenon ...

For two hundred years, Britain needed coal. The men who braved dreadful danger to hew it out of rocks miles underground were considered heroes; their trade union was feared by governments and revered ...

Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels deal with the nightmarish and the claustrophobic. Her most recent, Missing, teetered on the edge of the supernatural.

What a difference a decade makes. In 1940 George Orwell published his eighth book, the essay collection Inside the Whale, but when the Nazis in the same year drew up a list of Britons to be arrested ...

Stephan Thernstrom, 56, a professor at Harvard University for 25 years, is considered one of the pre-eminent scholars of the history of race relations in America. He has tenure. He has won prizes and ...

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation, spent the autumn and winter of 1773–4 in St Petersburg. It was the worst time of year for an ageing philosopher, underdressed, plagued by ...