A great pianist and composer Francesco Lotoro has been involved for over thirty years in an epochal undertaking: building an archive of the music t...

Following on from Foundation, Tudors is the second volume in Peter Ackroyd's astonishing series, The History of England. Rich in detail and atmo...

A Prospect Best Book of 2021 'A fascinating and timely book.' William Boyd 'Gripping...a must read.' FT 'Compelling...humane, reasonable, ...

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the comma...

In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them.  What ...

Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and i...

This is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia from the romantic days of 'bush' flying in the 1920s and '30s-when aircraft were refuelled from ...

In A Short History of South Africa, Gail Nattrass, historian and educator, presents the reader with a brief, general account of South Africa’s hist...

This is the story of Comrade September, a member of the ANC and its military wing, MK, who was abducted from his hideout in Swaziland by an aparthe...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to th...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to th...

Written by Marilyn Martin, a former director of the South African National Gallery, Between Dreams and Realities is based on extensive research and...

The book is not about the colourful houses, the cooking, music, minstrels or slavery - it is an attempt to achieve a greater understanding of the h...

* * A Daily Mail Book of the Week * * The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history. ____________...

Cape Town is a place between. Between two oceans, between first and third worlds, between east and west. So too the majority of its citizens, a peo...

'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. It should have put me off for life. Robert Mason tells a gri...

From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tells the his...

In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, ...

Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South A...

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, i...

In die vroee beplanningsfase van die Vryheidspark was Robin Binckes 'n lid van die subkomitee oor geskiedenis. Die mate van debatvoering en besprek...

'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of Engla...

'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of Engla...

ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has de...

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe'...

Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume o...

On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the younges...