He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around the world, a beacon of hope, courage, and perseverance in t...

A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the s...

A woman receives two severed ears in a cardboard box, a government-worker is found dead on the London Underground, and two men go insane in a Corni...

World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope....

Time after time, His Needs, Her Needs has topped the charts as the bestselling marriage book available. In this classic book, Willard F. Harley, Jr...

Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.' Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed m...

Robbie is born to be evil, or so he thinks - but how do you become the head of an evil dynasty when you're ... nice? Robbie is heir to the evilest ...

Stephen Hawking was one of the most important astrophysicists of the last fifty years. After the publication of A Brief History of Time, he became ...

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to h...

Internationally-renowned historian Hermann Giliomee has himself been intimately involved in the unfolding drama of South Africa's history, as parti...

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

Historiese Almanak is 'n keur uit die skrywer se gewilde radiopraatjies en koerantrubrieke oor gebeure van die verlede. Dit is reeds vroeg in 1982 ...

As uitgesproke kommenatator wat voor en na 1994 met die regering gebots het, een van die Dakar-gangers wat al in die 1980s die ANC gaan ontmoet het...

Welcome to the museum! Here you will find a collection of objects from ancient civilisations. Objects of beauty, objects of functionality, objects ...

Explore the wonders of the past in this stunning collection of over 160 historical artefacts, from Ancient Rome to the dynasties of China. Welcome ...

A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn a...

Dive back in time to discover the unbelievable stories of the past through more than 200 vibrant maps. From how huge wars were won and lost to the ...

Why did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall? Part of D...

From the author of the UK NO. 1 BESTSELLER THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating co...

A History of Africa takes an in-depth look at the rich and fascinating, but often unreported, history of the African continent through the ages. Fr...

The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren't for the Ninth Legion, Elizabeth I a minor royal without the Spanish Armada, and ...

A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first kno...

‘Narrative history at its best. With prodigious detail and eloquent prose Simpson places Black South Africans at the centre of the country’s histor...

The narrative commences 55 years before the birth of Christ, when Julius Caesar famously 'turned his gaze upon Britain' and concludes with the Batt...

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long st...

From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars.Astronomer Florian ...

From Stone Age cave paintings to computers, find out about the key events in world history through 100 amazing stickers. Discover how great empires...

People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely a...

Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose isexquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE Y...