Cairncross differed from the other Cambridge spies in his political outlook and motivation; he didn't work closely with any of them. Suspected as the 'Fifth Man', his identity was confirmed ... read more
Described by Churchill as "that strange, glittering being", Vickers met GD as an old lady in a mental hospital many years ago. She enraptured many, including Berenson, Proust and Rodin.
A memoir of youth in Henan province and the liberating power of the pen, by a prolific Chinese writer still relatively little known in this country, despite a festoon of international prizes... read more
PP has written numerous books on Fascist Spain. No one is better qualified to write this big history - why corruption has been so tenacious, and the continuing conflict between centrism and ... read more
A very welcome re-issue. Not so much art history as a series of conversations and thoughts about the work of Paul Nash, David Jones, Joan Eardley, Ben Nicholson and others. Some illustration... read more
A portrait of the group composed of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Herbert Read, Gropius, Mondrian and others: how their lives crossed and influenced one another... read more
SOE sent more than 400 agents into France of whom 39 were women. Vigurs traces them all here, not just the well known ones, and sets them in their context.
The contents of a shoebox in America led the author to discover her grandmmother's family, from Picasso in Paris, Dior and Chagall to a farmhouse in the Auvergne, Auschwitz and Long Island. ... read more
Of the 50,000 Jews who were sent to concentration camps from Salonika, only 2,000 returned. The author is one of them. This manuscript from 1948 is presented by his grandson.
SK's father was Bernat Klein, a Yugoslav Jew who came to Britain after WW2 and became a successful textile designer - Chanel, Dior & Balenciaga were amongst his clients. He lived in a moder... read more
A valuable reminder of the remarkable rise and achievements of the uneducated orphan farm boy who became Minister of Labour during WW2, and one of the prime architects of West Germany, NATO ... read more
Reinvention, escape, adventure, romance, survival... Not all the women were 'port out starboard home'. Gripping and entertaining social history from the author of 'Queen Bees'.
The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings' earlier biographical subjects include Somerset Maugham,... read more
Zulfikar was executed in 1979; three of his children were murdered. One can understand why the brilliant author Fatima keeps her distance from politics.
Lodge was hugely significant in US politics, from his influence with Eisenhower and as ambassador to Vietnam, right up to the 1970s. He did more than anyone else to transform the Republicans... read more
From the author of the biography of Shchukin comes the story of another extraordinary pre-Revolutionary Russian collector of European art. He spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings, which... read more
A group biography of five women at Oxford in the early C20th who pioneered the study of remote communities in Siberia, Egypt, New Mexico and Easter Island. The women were Katherine Routledge... read more
First vol of the unexpurgated diaries, with the second due in the autumn. (A selection was published in 1967 but there was a 60-year embargo on the full text.)
A new assessment of Alan Brooke, first Viscount Alanbrooke, which examines his treatment at the hands of historians as well as his importance to Churchill.
From being America's most significant ally in the region, Iran suddenly became its greatest adversary: this account, from 1941 onwards, explains how the Shah himself contrived to lose suppor... read more
Better remembered now as Vanessa Bell's husband, CB's 1914 'Art' was a ground-breaking re-evaluation that stood at the centre of early C20th art. This fine biography reclaims his significanc... read more
Executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, a crime of which she was almost certainly innocent. This is a valuable book on 'The American Dreyfus Affair... read more
Not so much a sequel to 'The Hare with Amber Eyes', this short, superb and immensely powerful book is nevertheless complementary to his earlier book. Read it, give it, think about it; read i... read more