Through newly declassified documents, interviews with surviving family members and original writing by Hanfstaengl himself, Peter Conradi recounts a remarkable life.
The story of poison is the story of power... The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.
From the writer of Knocked Up, Pineapple Express and Superbad, and the director of This is 40 and Trainwreck, comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years
This sensual, lyrical, immersive novel follows Ayaana's journey to adulthood after her Kenyan island childhood is interrupted; first by religious fundamentalists and secondly when Chinese emissaries claim her as a descendant and offer her a new life and education overseas.
Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generation Thinker.
The international bestseller - an uplifting story of cross-generational living and friendship.
Crisis hits Richard's rural French B&B when his redoubtable housekeeper is accused of murder. With Valérie d'Orçay at his side, their investigation leads them to a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.
Reveals the mind boggling neuroscience connecting brain, body, mind, and society, by examining a range of brain disorders, in the tradition of Oliver Sacks.
Can Gretel persuade Gilde the Bear Witch to join forces with her friends, or at least stop fighting them? Can Hansel find a way to heal the land’s divisions before disaster strikes them... Læs mere
An entrancing book of exploration, marine life and natural wonders.
“I am in great danger…”This letter is received by three eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable. So when one of the town’s charity workers is found the wrong... Læs mere