The scintillating second Venetian thriller from David Hewson, author of the acclaimed adaptation of the Danish The Killing seriesA noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed…
Arranged thematically into 75 entries, Graves of the Great & Famous tours the world exploring the resting places of leading artists, thinkers, scientists, sports people,…
Battleships and Carriers features 300 of the most significant capital ships to have sailed the seas since the age of sail. These include such famous battleships as Henri Grâce à …
Picture-book beautiful, Amsterdam is one of the great cities of Europe and a feature on every travellerÂ’s bucket list – for its unique concentric canal system dating from the…
Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O''Mahony, an award-winning author and physician at Cork University HospitalSeamus O''Mahony charts the realities of work in the '…
Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and…
Amy Sargeant''s compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey''s The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master…
This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of…
A special correspondent of The New York Times, Carl W. Ackerman traveled from Vladivostok to Irkutsk to Omsk to Ekaterinburg in the fall of 1918 in the midst of the Russian Civil…
The behind-the-scenes story of how a son of a coal miner from Cardenden helped make Scottish football history. Self-made housebuilding entrepreneur Alex Penman bought his local…
A delightful rhyming picture book, perfect for any little dragon who is feeling poorly. This soothing addition to the When a Dragon .
As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. Britain’s Empire recounts the long…
WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARNext morning at about 6 o’clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore.…
Providing help for practitioners to support parents and grandparents during the perinatal period, this book offers advice on how to maintain good mental health. The authors lay…
Kick your depression to the curb and find self-acceptance in the process.Depression can feel like being caught in a cyclone, totally powerless and never knowing when it will let…