Non-fiction, Strana 6

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium...

In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.He recruited a band of eccentric...

Comedian and actor Stephen Fry's witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.Stephen...

Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or...

The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the...

Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was...

'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New YorkerA cultural...

'If the world can be moved by just the slightest push, then the person who knows where and when to push has real power. So who are those people? What are their intentions? What...

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or...

Slavic mythology brought together with the legends, folkore and fairy tales of Eastern Europe in this intriguing new collection.With a new introduction, this collection of...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most...

The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this...