An award-winning photojournalist returns to his home country to capture the spirit of Irish life in its centenary year. One hundred years after Ireland's 1916 Rising, the revolt tha
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format.'After my death', George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself in
The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city.We live in a world that is now, in the majority, urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-f
The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world.
Anne Applebaum meets Paddy Leigh Fermor.Part memoir, part reflection, this book will bring to life central Europe during the last ten years of the Cold War. It begins in Trieste in 1979 where the embe
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format. Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both refle
A captivating guide to the past, present and future of 'the amazing crystal' that plays a vital role in regulating our planet. Peter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambrid
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format. Charles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable Bri
Succeeding to the throne at the age of only nine months, Henry VI had a turbulent reign: he inherited a war with France and, in time, found himself at war with his own nobles. James Ross surveys this
The reign of Edward II (1307-27) was a serious of total disasters, making him unsuccessful to an extent almost without equal. At some level Edward simply did not inspire trust or respect. He failed to
On Christmas Day 1066, William duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. The ceremony was a disaster: Norman soldiers, mishearing English shouts of acclamation as
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In The Road to Character David Brooks, best-selling author of The Social Animal and New York Times columnist, explains why selflessness leads to greater success We all pos
An exploration of the power dynamics that shape everyday life - from the board room to the dinner table, the playground to the bedroom. It shows us that everything we thought about power is dead wrong
The most significant revolution in the history of music has to do with listening: it is now possible to listen to nearly anything at any time, to ignore albums, and to instantly flit across genres and
How our views of crime and its causes are wrong -- and how we can begin to understand and tackle it properly. The way we see and understand crime falls into two types of story that,
