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In Crucible of Light, Elizabeth Drayson pulls together the epic interwoven history of the Muslim and Christian worlds over an 800-year span, taking in the conquest and re-conquest of Spain, the meteoric rise of Arabo-Norman Sicily, the Ottoman renaissance of the 16th to 18th centuries, the ebb and f...

A magnificently researched New York Times bestseller revisionist history of Genghis Khan and his legacy, arguing that rather than a brutal barbarian, Khan was one of the most progressive leaders in world history who joined East and West and brought about the "Global Awakening" that led to the Renais...

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read. I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and...

This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times).This enthralling history, widely hail...

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet.The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the ...

Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchantIn 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domest...

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. In this sweeping and original history, renowned historian Marc Morris separates the truth...

England's greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings. Their remarkable reign saw England emerge from the Dark Ages to become a highly organized kingdom that spanned a vast expanse of Europe. Plantagenet rule saw the establishment of laws and creat...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and politics, offers an original and fascinating re-examination of life in Anglo-Saxon England. Taking them down from the clouds of their heaven...

'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of history with elegance and panache' Dan Carlin, Hardcore History'Dan Jones is in a class of his own. Read this book to wrap your head around 1,000 ye...

Discover who we are and how we got here in comedian, star of Peep Show and student of history David Mitchell's A History of England's Kings and Queens - a thoughtful, funny exploration of the founding fathers and mothers of England, and subsequently Britain.Think you know your kings and queens? Thin...

A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn.Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his ...

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion HouseIstanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinnacle of world power, while his family and future are at the mercy of their own dynastic law- whiche...

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy...

A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia - its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography.The eighth century has long been a neglected backwater in English history: a shadowland between the death of Bede and the triumphs of Ælfred. ...

The Great Wall of China - stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea - remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might. And yet for all its grandeur, the Wall also marks a vulnerability- an ever-present reminder of old battlelines and never-ending tension with C...

'A powerful tale. compelling and brilliant' - ALISON WEIRIn March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen's ministers cluster round her bedside, urging her to name her successor - something she has stubbornly resisted throughout her reign. Almost wit...

The death of Edward I in 1307 marked the beginning of a period of intense turmoil and change in England. The fourteenth century ushered in the beginning of the bloody Hundred Years’ War with France, an epic conflict with Scotland that would last into the sixteenth century, famine in Northern Europ...