None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate…Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding...

Mary McCarthy’s VENICE OBSERVED is not really a history, nor is it a guidebook – it is the reflections of a young woman in 1950s Venice who enjoys the art and architecture of this wonderful city.

This is a moody novel which follows the exploits of Charlie as he gravitates from one woman to the next.

`Stockwin continues to display his talents in transporting his audience from the 21st century to the chaotic worlds of Kydd, Renzi, and their imperiled homeland.’ – Historical Novels Review

In Freud’s dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past. On opposite sides of...

Vietnam is a rising economy in Asia, capitalism is finding root in a country that still sees itself as Communist. Vibrant cities sit alongside poverty in the country. This book explores what lies beneath, how family values still hold...

The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A...