Sean from our Royal Festival Hall branch picks out the books that best document a conflict - memorably described by Jose Luis Borges as "two bald men fighting over a comb" - that cost 907 lives.
Katy recalls her own childhood enjoyment of the late Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are and celebrates the achievements of an author who never grew up.
The definitive portrait of the man who will be King, written by the bestselling royal biographer Penny Junor
In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In...
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen -- from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince...
In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi - the celebrated author of The King's Speech, on which the Oscar award-winning film of the same...
If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. This book examines the paths that different societies have taken...
Draws on a research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settled, spread and...
Presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Ranging from Vilna ('Jerusalem of Lithuania') to...
The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious...
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe and compare the dazzling civilizations of the Orient with Europe and North America, the idea that the...
Cassandra will be discussing the recent release of City of Lost Souls with the inimitable...
In this exclusive interview for Foyles, Nell talks about how she came to write her latest novel, The Colour of Milk, in the voice of an 1830s farm girl, why society is more compassionate today and the value of literacy and speaking one's mind.
WINNER ANNOUNCED! Afghanistan account Dead Men Risen, whose first print run was pulped by order of the MoD, is unanimous victor.
The story of the intellectual bromance between Sartre and Camus that culminated in a bitter feud.