The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau (Translated from French by Jody Gladding) ...

The Travels of Norman Lewis by John Hatt (ed) ...

Hitler’s Royal Welcome - The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski (Translated from ...

After Napoleon, Marie Antoinette is probably the most famous French historical figure in Britain, even though she was originally Austrian and he was Corsican. At an early age, however, both left home ...

For two hundred years, Britain needed coal. The men who braved dreadful danger to hew it out of rocks miles underground were ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Essays in Austrian Literature by W G Sebald (Translated from German by Jo Catling) ...

‘He talks slowly but continuously’, said one of Henry James’s later amanuenses, who of course wrote most of it down. The writing-down in part produced what can only be called the ‘world’ of James’s ...

Among the Indian novelists who arrived on the world stage after the publication of Midnight’s Children in 1981, Amitav Ghosh has long stood out for the range and consistency of his work. Indian ...

The idea of the army being a safe space may strike us as strange, until you recall that China’s greatest living novelist, Yan ...

It isn’t too much of a spoiler, I hope, to say that Robert Harris’s enjoyable new book has a twist not at the end, but at the beginning: it starts out looking like a historical novel and, a chapter or ...

Within less than a decade, Charles’s ‘reign of peace’ had imploded and the two amateur impresarios found themselves on opposing sides in the ensuing civil war – Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–75) as a ...