Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. The West is in full retreat. The Anglo-Saxon powers, great and small, withdraw into fantasies of lost greatness. Populists all over Europe cry out that immigration and globalisation are the work of a nefarious System, run by unseen masters with no national loyalties. From the Kremlin, Tsar Vladimir watches his Great Game line up, while the Baltic and Vizegrad states shiver -- and everyone looks to Berlin. But are the Germans really us, or them? This question has haunted Europe ever since Julius Caesar invented the Germani in 58 BC. How Roman did ...

Based on ten years of research and containing the first-ever chronology of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions, Julian Shuckburgh’s vivid biography is an impassioned, controversial, and personal portrait of the man who composed some of the most sublime music ever written, in spite of—or pe...

Emmanuel, a young man with spinal tuberculosis and confined to a sanatorium outside Paris, narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly atrophy and die. Blending dark humor and pathos, Scarred Hearts was hailed as a masterpiece on public...

The tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. A story that Jane Austen famously declined to tell, declaring: "I could no more write a romance than an epic poem."

Charlotte was the on...

"One of the most important windows onto the New Russian psyche and one of the best books on crime and punishment ever written."-John Kelly, Prospect Magazine

Twenty-seven-year-old Andrei always knew his shady business dealings could get him into trouble. But aside from the odd scam o...

Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson, and Stanley Spencer were five of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they met at The Slade in London between 1908 and 1910, in what was later described as the school's "last crisis o...

“A candid and thought-provoking account of one woman's sexual history that is universal in its ordinariness.”—Shelf Awareness

“Her honesty is so heartbreaking that she becomes irresistible.”—Guardian

“Achingly funny and heartbreaking.”—Lond...