In 1949, soon after the arrival of communism, David Kidd's Chinese fiancée, the daughter of an an...

The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive are among the earliest written accounts of India by a Britis...

Seen through the eyes of a young boy, the Argentine pampas was a land of freedom and endless expl...

On an unnamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, ab...

Palestine Papers gives the vivid, inside story of the creation of the British Mandate of Palestin...

Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as clo...

In a dark cupboard of her house, Michaela Reid, the granddaughter-in-law of Sir James Reid, disco...

The Missionaries is a searing examination of attempts by North American fundamentalist Christian ...

With dry, laconic wit, Norman Lewis remembers his transformation from stammering Welsh schoolboy ...

Valse des Fleurs recreates one glittering winter's day in St Petersburg in its heyday. The Tsar i...

In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in Egypt began to explore the Western ...

This is the story of a street in London's docklands and of a family who lived in it. The street w...