The West Indian Generation - Prijzen

Montefiore, S: Young Stalin

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finall...

1917

How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies-a change that would go on to kill millions? In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson-champion of American...

Life in 1950s London

After the trauma of the Blitz and wartime restrictions, London embraced the arrival of a new decade. Austerity was slow to loosen its grip, but the Festival of Britain pointed a tentative way forward....

Housewives and Citizens

This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women's organisations made to women's lives and to the campaign for women's rights throughout the period 1928-64. The...

British Military Intelligence

Through a mix of objects, medals, photographs and documents held in the Military Intelligence Museum, the book tells the story of British military intelligence across the years, moving from its earlie...

Storming the Eagle's Nest

From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. The Alps as...

Children's Exodus

In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religio...

Der Sozialstaat

Cold as Ice

GRIPPING AND FAST-PACED CRIME FICTION FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FROZEN GRAVE AND COLD KILLERS. On a freezing cold winter's day, the body of a young woman is pulled from an icy canal in London. To...

We Know It Was You

Twin Peaks meets Pretty Little Liars in acclaimed author Maggie Thrash's new Strange Truth series.It's better to know the truth. At least sometimes. Halfway through Friday night's football game, beaut...

The World is Full of Divorced Women

Written by the author of Hollywood Husbands, Hollywood Wives, The World is Full of Married Men and Lovers and Gamblers, this is a novel about the glittering world of rock parties and concerts, the str...

Falling Out of Time

In this compassionate and genre-defying drama the internationally acclaimed author of To the End of the Land weaves an incandescent tale of parental grief. A powerful distillation of the experience of...