Following the success of Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (2022), Valentine Low has adopted the same methods to explore wider relations between the palace and the government. He draws on ...
In the summer of 1592, high in the Moravian hills, the little town of Bennisch was gripped by fear. Back in February, the story goes, the mayor, Johann Kunze, had died after being kicked in the ...
In his account of the Wall Street crash, Andrew Ross Sorkin aims to ‘immerse readers in the moment’. 1929 is full of the texture and detail of human life at the centre of the event that brought the ...
What do we think of when we think of blondes? Perhaps Scandinavia, where blonde hair is commonplace, or iconic blonde stars such as Marilyn Monroe or Brigitte Bardot. Sexy Swedes, brash Americans or ...
After the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died from an overdose at the age of twenty-seven, hangers-on and chancers stepped over his still-warm body to help themselves to the artworks in his New York loft ...
Only a selection of our reviews and articles are free. Subscribers receive the monthly magazine and access to all articles on our website. 15th-century news transmission was a slow business, reliant ...
It has been one hundred years since the publication of John Beresford’s The Godfather of Downing Street: Sir George Downing 1623–1684. In that time, history has not been kind to Downing. Might now be ...
It was a bold move for a publisher to commission a book on the murky and tortuous subject of the global fishing industry from an author who refuses to eat fish and develops seasickness every time she ...
There are few good stories that don’t have a secret somewhere. In this book the admirable Juliet Nicolson takes the view that women in particular are the repositories for secrets and, ultimately, the ...
At the core of this gripping study is a tea party that took place in Berlin on 10 September 1943. Present were critics of the Nazi regime, dissidents who, from a Nazi perspective, were all traitors to ...
If one were to hazard a guess as to the largest nature reserve in Europe, Chernobyl would be an unlikely contender. And yet, over the last thirty years, a vast area closed off to all but a few ...
Get ready to start hearing a lot about Martin Luther. On 31 October 2017 it will be five hundred years since Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, ...