Fresh look at the life of Sabine Baring Gould, most famous for composing the hymn 'Onward Christi...

The most thrilling and controversial cricketer of his generation, Brian Lara is a hero to million...

Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's per...

Presents a cultural history of Catalonia, exploring the distinctive nature of Catalan identity th...

Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to t...

Not a self-help guide but a candid, confessional memoir about mental illness that intersperses po...

Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date itsfirst settlement to over seven thousand year...

Compelling story of Prince Puckler-Muskau's matrimonial tour of England told for the first time

No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostok. It is no...

The Spanish Civil War still captures the popular imagination, but this is the first guidebook to ...

A celebration of the sea in poetry and painting

The popularity of the musical, Hamilton, featuring the death of Alexander Hamilton in a duel with...