A fascinating and original look at the complex political life of one of the world's most renowned poets.
The Wolsey who emerges is a man of prodigious energy and ability, a tireless dispenser of justice, an enlightened reformer wholly dedicated to his king and country - a man who has been consistently misrepresented and maligned for four-and-a-half centuries.
Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden... Læs mere
For a man who longed for a quiet existence, Arthur Ransome led a remarkably adventurous life. His two marriages - first to an unstable fantasist and later to a formidable Russian who had been Trotsky's secretary - were, to say the least, stormy.
Combining scholarship with a vivid narrative, it reveals a war of unexpected savagery, of carnage at times so great as to be comparable to the First World War.
The Sunday Times bestseller, a Guardian and Sunday Times 'Books of 2021' pick! A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of... Læs mere
Three lives collide, not one of them will emerge unchanged - the exhilarating new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. When Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as she is... Læs mere
The internationally bestselling thriller, now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock! Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? Satoshi looks like an... Læs mere
No modern philosopher has been more maligned and misunderstood or more cynically exploited than Friedrich Nietzsche. The wealth and diversity of Nietzsche's aphorisms and brief essays - close to 2,700 - make him the most seminal and provocative thinker of modern times.
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after... Læs mere
Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice.
Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.