That they might be capable of making music in such a hostile landscape feels like a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an absorbing story about a piano hunt - a quixotic quest through two centuries of Russian history and eight time zones stretching across an eleventh of the world's land surface.

Drawing on four years of research around the world, a new biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, from the award-winning author Andrew Lownie.

The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.

A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europe's longest running modern conflict. -- .

* Kundnani dissects the conflicting pressures at play in Germany today and how these influence its politics, economic strategy and foreign policy

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023

The UK's top-selling true crime writer and author of the #1 bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher takes on the notorious murders at 10 Rillington Place

Following in the tradition of the British Library Philosophy of ... series, this full-colour book explores the fascinating and diverse influences on our Christmas celebrations. A beautifully designed gift book, this is the perfect stocking filler, written by popular and best-selling author, Caroline Taggart.

Published in honour of our late Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, The Platinum Queen presents seven decades of world history through the words of Britain's longest-reigning monarch - a Choice magazine 'great summer read' and Prima pick for celebrating the jubilee

Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.

This book provides an alternative approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture and has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and social relations. Above all, the book challenges the claim that early modern England was a hierarchical, 'pre-class' society.

Part revisionist history, part treasure hunt, this is the forgotten story of Ethiopia's 'Elgin Marbles' and a young prince taken out of Africa to live in Victorian Britain

A IRA hunger striker imagines the future of Irish Republicanism

Based on the television documentary series of the same name, the author charts the history of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine, which charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their famous friends and lovers.