Following his outstanding book 1913: The Year Before the Storm, , Illies looks at the affairs of de Beauvoir, Sartre, Dietrich, Mann (both T & K), Nabokov and others, set against the looming... read more
Subcultures and iconic misfits: the catalogue for an exhibition in Prague that includes the work of Wolfgang Tilmans, Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz, Alice Neale et alia. A lot of cigarettes,... read more
From the perspective of the people who have worked and lived there since 1862, when it was a fishing village, rather than of the imperial powers who controlled it.
Borman's careful research shows that Anne's tragedy, intellect and family had a profound influence on Elizabeth throughout her life. A dazzling turn of the Tudor prism.
Street scenes, portraits, people at work, a classroom, children: this is powerful and poignant record of Kashgar as it used to be. All the photographs were taken in 1998, on the cusp of swee... read more
A sequence of essays about the Treaty that addressed the new Turkish state and the Middle East. At Versailles, before the rise of Ataturk, the West thought such matters had less claim on the... read more
How Stalin isolated and pampered Western journalists in the gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel in order to control their output: their translators were often paid to share their beds, but oth... read more
The European revolutions of 1848 and their aftermath, explored through a series of set-pieces by the renowned historian, author of The Sleepwalkers and Iron Kingdom.
The highways and byways of the Good Friday Agreement - by a distinguished journalist who spent several decades covering the troubled state of Northern Ireland.
Any book from SB is always eagerly awaited, this one no less than its marvellous predecessors How to Live: A Life of Montaigne and At The Existentialist Caf?.
Nubia and Egypt, the empires of the Sudan, the kingdoms of Ethiopia and Benin and those of the Asante, Yoruba, Hausa and Zulus... Nine scholars on African kingship; some illustrations.
Encompasses natural events and their consequences on a vast scale, showing how these have shaped human responses, trade, empires... Particularly trenchant as we try to understand climate cha... read more
A fascinating exploration of travel in C17th India: merchant-cum-gentleman Thomas Roe is whisked away as ambassador to Mughal India where he plays the dangerous (and often disappointing) gam... read more
The town is Krakowiec, forty miles from Lviv. In a powerful combination of memoir, family history and scholarship, Wasserstein creates a lens through which the particular becomes exemplar.
On the radical pre-Socratic philosopher and geometer who proposed (amongst other things) an early theory of evolution. By the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Helgoland.