Taller with the Charm On - The People’s Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross ...

Six of the Best - The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions that Shook the World by Bojan Pancevski ...

For many, what would come to be known as Christianity was still a Jewish sect operating within the confines of the established Law (ie the teachings of the Torah). Yet Christianity was cosmopolitan ...

Reports from Cuba by J S Tennant ...

That episode is pivotal in Liaquat Ahamed’s panorama of the origins of an era of deflation, stagnation and unrest – the ‘first Great Depression’ – that afflicted much of the world for the rest of the ...

The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Pinsker ...

Buffs of Catcher In The Rye will remember that novel's test of a good novel: if reading it makes you want to telephone the writer like a friend. Holden Caulfield, at large in the universe of the ...

Ever since Shakespeare labelled Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a ‘murderous Machiavel’, the word ‘Machiavellian’ in popular culture has meant being devious, cunning, scheming and quite prepared for the ...

The year 1918 was an extraordinary historical moment. As the Great War roared to an end after four long years of blood and horror, it appeared briefly that the future of the world lay wide open. The ...

In his introduction to Eminent Edwardians Dr Piers Brendan tells us his work 'follows Strachey's pattern and attempts to unlock an age by means of a few key figures' whose "eminence was global".' He ...

'Poets make the best topographers', W. H. Hoskins has said, with Wordsworth in mind, and Margaret Drabble's fine survey of British landscape as seen through literary eyes from Celtic times until our ...

The eponymous well heeled juvenile duo whose adventures make up the core of this new American film accept without question the wealth that quite obviously surrounds them – luxurious apartments in a ...