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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Wagner was careful to preserve for posterity every detail of his life. From 1835 onwards he kept a diary, known as the 'Red Book', upon which his autobiographical works were based. He realised ...

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 problem with modern poetry is that most poets have absented themselves from the arena of everyday life. They are content to have their poems circulated among a few friends, absolutely ecstatic ...