The Colour of Time: a New History of the World, 1850-1960

Dan Jones; Marina Amaral

The Colour of Timespans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the po...

My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor

Selma van de Perre

'How to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness'. Edith Eger, author of The Choice 'An incredible tale of heroics and survival.' Dan Snow __________ 'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened ...

Lessons

Ian McEwan

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Corne...

The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in...