Two women in seventeenth-century Paris are drawn into the volatile and mysterious Affair of the Poisons after a bid to keep their passionate romance a secret results in deadly violence

For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. This title lays bare the follies of the international financial system, looking at the nature of capitalism, how it works and why sometimes it doesn't.

From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.

The answer to overwork and burnout, the route to fulfilment and success: letting go.

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.

A biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history, who just died in Moscow.

A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams.