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Plongez au cœur d'une crise géopolitique majeure où stratégie et histoire militaire se heurtent dans l'Atlantique Sud. Idéal pour enrichir votre réflexion lors de vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif dissèque un affrontement territorial devenu inévitable. Vivez l'escalade d'une...

Erlebe in diesem packenden Geschichts-Sachbuch, wie eine winzige Insel im Nordatlantik ein Viertel der Erde unterwarf. Begib dich auf eine fesselnde und lehrreiche Hörexpedition durch die Jahrhunderte, ideal um den täglichen Arbeitsweg in eine tiefgreifende Auseinandersetzung mit der...

In May 1979, Margaret Thatcher walked into Downing Street with a promise to take apart the Britain that Labour had built in the post-war years. It was a Britain where the public owned the water, the gas and the electricity while heavy industries burned British coal all day and night. British...

"A compelling page-turner" about the medieval English baron who invaded his own country and deposed a king (Alison Weir, author of Queen Isabella). One night in August 1323, a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London. With the king's men-at-arms in pursuit he fled to the south coast and sailed to France. There he was joined by Isabella, the French-born queen of England, who threw herself into his arms. A year later, as lovers, they returned with an invading army: King Edward II's forces crumbled before them and Mortimer took power.

Punk started much earlier than we think: enter the seductive subculture created by three rebellious boys navigating the sparkling world of the Elizabethan court Three young noblemen – heirs to some of the greatest titles in the land – come of age under the watchful eye of William Cecil, the...

How has British politics changed since the arrival of Labour in power after fourteen years in the political wilderness? The Government, elected in 2024, is headed by a leader who many find hard to understand and voters are often unable to discern the government’s political philosophy or the...

Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, now in a single volume With unparalleled authority and dramatic detail, Charles Moore's definitive biography of Margaret Thatcher presents the whole history of the woman who transformed Britain and the...

Entitled is the first joint biography of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson by renowned royal biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie. Packed full of extraordinary revelations, Entitled reveals the extent to which Andrew and Fergie’s lives are still deeply entwined. Drawing on...

A magical journey through the world’s oldest tales, retold with clarity and wonder and brought to life with striking original linocut art. Storyland begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants, covers the founding of Britain, England...

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king...

Dominion, the fifth volume in Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901. Spanning the end of the Regency, Ackroyd takes listeners...

In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes listeners from William of Orange’s accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was—again—at war with France, a war that would end with the...

This second volume in William Manchester’s three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill’s finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932–1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for...

In this massive bestseller in England, one of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country. Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of...

When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked...

From Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I, the age of the Tudors comes to vivid life on the page. Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his History of England series...

The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd’s magnificent History of England series, from the Boer War to the Millenium Dome. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the...

Step into ancient Rome to uncover the monumental engineering and brutal frontier politics that forged a divided Britain. Whether you are seeking a gripping historical narrative for your daily commute or preparing for an adventurous trip across the rugged northern landscape, this immersive...

"Many books claim to be a new way of looking at history, but this book truly is." ―Financial Times "A thoughtful and thorough history." ―The Times (UK) The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries forged a powerful image of England―Shakespeare's "scepter'd isle," proud and apart, defined by...

A lively account of medieval England through the eyes of its most famous poet and chronicler Who were Chaucer's thirty-three pilgrims, and why were they heading to Canterbury? What do they and their tales tell us about medieval England as a place, and about the daily lives of its people?...