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The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pi…

Staff Pick The perfect read if you’re finding the combination of shorter daylight hours and lock-down tricky. By observing historical method…

Emerging from a collection of city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosp…

The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions w…

‘Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world . . .’ Paris the Trojan has kidnapped Helen, Greek queen and most beautiful woman of the…

The real scoop isn’t on the front page ‘As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering uni…

All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. In the 1930s, Grant McAllister, a mathematics professor turned author, worked them out, h…

The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 ‘The most important …

Staff Pick Weird, wonderful and pretty damn unforgettable – for all the right reasons! The author of ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ turns…

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ‘Hugely, highly and happily recom…