José Zorrilla 
La reina y los favoritos 

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent …

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius – Matthew Parris, The Spectator An absolutely extraordinary book … a huge collage and anthology of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper reports, trial docu …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

”On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing ach …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA”S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest cou …

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America – to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV” …

In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer – known as `Imam Beckenbauer” for his piety and his dominant style of play – has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey”s military …

These lectures, delivered in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during 1973 and 1974, reveal Bion in his most vital and challenging mode both in respect of the material he presents, and in his responses to …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ”A sweeping and brilliant portrait ” GUARDIAN ”A reportorial tour de force … Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down” JANE MAYER ” Vision …

”Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating” Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a …