books by subject
Social & Urban History Biographies

The Right Stuff

Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland

Lost Voices: Memories of a Vanished Way of Life

Mao: The Unknown Story

The Prince

The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family

The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars

Three Letter Plague: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great Epidemic

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

The Age of Spectacle: The Rise and Fall of Iconic Architecture

Mr Nice: The Incredible Story of an Unconventional Life

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Littlejohn's Lost World

The Justice Game

Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil’s Most Wanted Criminal

The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

When Daddy Came Home: How War Changed Family Life Forever

The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

My Life in Houses

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

Five Patients

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

Mythologies (Vintage classics)

The Strange Story of Adolph Beck (Uncovered Editions)

Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life

One Pair of Hands

Children of Sanchez (Penguin Modern Classics)
