Following on from Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history.

A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

A narrative history of the Korean War by bestselling author Sir Max Hastings.

An authoritative, original and exciting history of the French nation, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.

A groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the ‘Little Ice Age’.