Last Mughal - The Fall of Delhi, 1857 (Dalrymple William)(Paperback / softback)

Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company (Dalrymple William)(Paperback / softback)

Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Dalrymple William)(Paperback / softback)

Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered

Last Queen Of India (Moran Michelle)(Paperback / softback)

1857. As the British look to extend the Commonwealth, the skills of Lakshmi and Sita - the greatest female warriors India has ever seen - are put to the

City of Djinns (Dalrymple William)(Paperback / softback)

'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run

Mughal World - India's Tainted Paradise (Eraly Abraham)(Paperback / softback)

Inside the opulent, decadent world of the Mughal emperorsThe Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE MUGHAL THRONE, mark one of the most crucial and

The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture (Schimmel Annemarie)(Paperback)

Long viewed as an exotic wonderland of unimaginable treasures, the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) was, in reality, the mightiest Islamic empire in the history of India. In The Empire of the Great Mughals, historian Annemarie Schimmel describes the political, military, and economic rise of the Mughals,

Capital - The Eruption of Delhi (Dasgupta Rana)(Paperback / softback)

The transformation of Delhi into a twenty-first century metropolis is an intoxicating, at times terrifying story - that has repercussions for the future not only in India but

Count Zero (Gibson William)(Paperback / softback)

They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair. When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately

Last Druid: Book Four of the Fall of Shannara (Brooks Terry)(Paperback)

Last Stories (Trevor William)(Paperback / softback)

Indian Mutiny - 1857 (David Saul)(Paperback / softback)

In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the British Empire. This title explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial

The Siege of Delhi (Singh Amarpal)(Pevná vazba)

On 10 May 1857, the most serious threat to British supremacy in India appeared at Meerut, a large military station near Delhi. After months of increasing tension, sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry along with the 11th and 20th Native Infantry pointedly refused to use the new cartridges supplied to

In Xanadu - A Quest (Dalrymple William)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately

Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Whitehead Annie)(Paperback)

Many people know about Wessex, the 'Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Those interested in the period will surely have heard of Penda, Offa, and thelfl d, Lady of the Mercians, but

Anything Goes (Dalrymple Theodore)(Paperback)

Theodore Dalrymple's work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes is a collection of some of his finest work written between 2005 and 2009 for New English Review. A note on the cover from New English Review Press:

William Pitt the Younger - A Biography (Hague William)(Paperback / softback)

The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt

The New Testament in Scots (Lorimer William)(Paperback)

The Greek scholar William Lorimer spent the last ten years of his life working on this project. Each Gospel has a different form of Scots to match the different forms of Greek used by the various apostles and scribes, and the vigour and immediacy of the language is everywhere apparent.Transcribed,

Enchantress of Florence (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He calls himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, and claims to be the son of a lost princess, whose name and has been erased

Black Ship - A Daisy Dalrymple Murder Mystery (Dunn Carola)(Paperback / softback)

The seventeenth Daisy Dalrymple mystery published in the UK for the first

Case of the Murdered Muckraker (Dunn Carola)(Paperback / softback)

The 10th novel in the charming Daisy Dalrymple series of 1920's country house murder

William Wordsworth(Paperback / softback)

A new edition of the only full-length popular biography of William

The Recognitions (Gaddis William)(Paperback)

A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade,

Fall Of The West - The Death Of The Roman Superpower (Goldsworthy Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman

Voysey's Birds and Animals (Livingstone Karen)(Pevná vazba)

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) is, with William Morris, one of the most enduringly popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practising architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics, and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles,