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Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen – and later Empress of India – for almost sixty-four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and political change.

An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain and Ireland – Stonehenge, Seahenge, Avebury and the Bend of the Boyne – as well as the discarded artefacts of day-to-day life, to create an astonishing portrait of our ancestors.

A state-of-the-nation look at modern Britain through the lens of a lasting emblem of grandeur, and decline ‘Today there is no one alive who remembers what it felt like when Great Britain was the richest country in the world. But there is a way to access that feeling. You just walk along the...

Ladies and gentlemen, step right up… On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age of the ‘Freak’ was...

A new history of the Renaissance's greatest feat of exploration: Sir Walter Ralegh's search for the legendary city of El Dorado, by New York Times bestselling author David Gibbins. In 1594, English adventurer Sir Walter Ralegh heard the story of a lost city in South America from a Spanish...

In the days of the British Empire, things were taken that probably shouldn't have been. So how come they're still in museums, galleries and some much stranger places? British museums are home to millions of fascinating objects. The trouble is, a whole bunch of them were stolen in wildly dodgy...

Windsor biographer Alexander Larman takes you behind the doors of Eaton Square, London’s most sought-after address. In the classic PBS series Upstairs, Downstairs, the aristocratic Bellamy family lived at the fictitious 165 Eaton Place, a grand home in one of London’s most beautiful garden...

From rumors of lost Amazonian cities of gold to the silver running through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes for dazzling wealth fueled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. Stories of treasure ships and the feats of privateers from Francis Drake to Walter Raleigh have become...

An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England's forgotten queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. 'Loxton is the leading historian of her generation' – Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Templars In 1290, England mourned the death of a...

From the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ""A brilliant book about knowledge...

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. Its target audience was the middle and upper class members of society—those who were more likely to be well educated—and exposes the poverty existing in two prosperous cities: Paris and London. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When wealthy banker Alexander Holder stumbles breathlessly into 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are confronted with a case that threatens national disgrace and destroys a family’s peace. Holder has accepted an invaluable national...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Adventure of the Speckled Band* ranks among Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated and terrifying Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a masterclass in deduction, suspense and creeping horror set in the shadowy Surrey countryside. Early one morning, a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From the memoirs of Dr. John Watson comes *The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor*, another captivating case featuring Sherlock Holmes, London’s preeminent consulting detective. Lord Robert St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, arrives at 221B...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Five Orange Pips* stands as one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s bleakest, most haunting Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a chilling tale of ancestral doom, secret societies, and relentless transatlantic vengeance from *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*. On a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Red-Headed League* stands among Arthur Conan Doyle’s most clever, celebrated Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a masterwork of misdirection and brilliant deductive reasoning. Dr. Watson recounts the strange case of Jabez Wilson, a portly pawnbroker with...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb* is a tense, fast-paced Sherlock Holmes thriller filled with shadowy criminals, deadly traps and narrow escapes, narrated by Dr. Watson. Shortly after Watson establishes his own medical practice, a distraught...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Man with the Twisted Lip* is a clever, twist-laden Sherlock Holmes mystery from Arthur Conan Doyle’s *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*, blending London’s shadowy opium dens, deceptive disguises, and a startling secret identity. When Dr...

Anne Askew lived only twenty-five years, yet her courage shook the foundations of Tudor England. Born into privilege but driven by conviction, she refused to silence her Protestant beliefs at a time when such defiance could mean imprisonment, torture, and death. Arrested and interrogated, she endured relentless pressure—from promises of royal pardon to the brutal agony of the rack—but she refused to betray fellow reformers or abandon her beliefs. Even as her body failed, her resolve only strengthened.

'A quite extraordinary story, quite beautifully told' GYLES BRANDRETH 'Exquisite . . . A vivid and elegant record of a lost world' PHILIP HOARE 'Wise, witty and wry - the biography that Saki, and all devoted Sakiphants, deserve' BEN SCHOTT There has been perhaps no more mischievous influence on...