"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the "enthralling" (Booklist, starred review) and "ingenious" (B...
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award'A novel of fate and free will, forensic detection and blind love, crime and its justifications . . . finely tuned ye...
1876. Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to be interviewed for the position of lady's-maid. But Esperanza ...
The defeat of Donald Trump in November 2020 followed by the attack on the US Congress on 6th January 2021 represented a tipping point moment in the history of t...
A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is stabbed to death. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, book lover, scholar a...
This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder – the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in t...
byNull Cox
‘A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football’ Matthew Syed, The Times ‘A fascinating assessment of...
byNull Cox
An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League tactics, published to coincide with 25 years of the competit...
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the presen...
The locked room has long fascinated readers of detective fiction with its images of entrapment and entombment. Narratives ofEnclosure is the first full length ...
Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It f...
This authoritative guide to the principles and practice of archives management in private and public sector organizations has been substantially revised. It no...
byGeorge Lawson,Chris Armbruster,Michael Cox
1989 signifies the collapse of Soviet communism and the end of the Cold War, a moment generally recognized as a triumph for liberal democracy and when capitalis...
byMichael Cox,Timothy Lynch,Nicolas Bouchet
The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widel...