Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly’s great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that...

On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. It is a moment which transforms a young group of friends, ...

A magical, thrilling journey and a hugely seductive book which combines the best travel and nature writing.

A timely, powerful and provocative study of the tensions between democracy and violence in the world's poorest countries, by one of the world's leading development economists.

Set among the hills and gorges of the Cévennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge, by th...

Brilliant, frightening, furious, apocalyptic: a literary tour de force and an explosive bestseller across Europe, selling over 1 million copies.

“For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine—these are the words it evokes; these are the preconception...

Don McCullin’s reputation as the greatest photographer of conflict has been replaced in recent years with an image of McCullin as the great traveller. His most ambitious journey yet has been to explor...