Lucinda Byatt
Edge Of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850
The breathtaking scope of this book, which was recently awarded the 50th Duff Cooper prize, is infused by Jasanoff’s imaginative…
The High Road To China: George Bogel, The Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet
This is an extraordinary tale of a young Glaswegian, George Bogle, who developed a genuine friendship with the incarnation of…
Guardians of the Key
Editors' choice
Gray has skilfully crafted a tale that leads from Italy under the burden of Napoleonic rule to the Italian…
The Book of Secrets
The “Book of Secrets” represents the stolen diary of a British colonial administrator, Sir Alfred Corbin, who arrived in…
Elizabeth’s Spy Master : Francis Walshingham and the Secret War that Saved England
This is a meticulous study of the shadowy world of espionage and its master, Francis Walsingham. As Elizabeth’s principal…
Forgotten Faces
This is the third volume in a thoroughly enjoyable saga in which the story of the Strong family is told…
Louis XVIII
In a new edition of this classic study, Mansel writes that Louis XVIII was ‘naturally European’, and during his twenty-three…
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