By James Leasor. Follow the Drum is a story of men and women caught in a cataclysm of mutiny, hatred, fear and passion. India, in the mid-nineteenth century, was virtually nun by a British commercial concern, the Honourable East India Trading Company, […]
By Dan Jones. Powers and thrones is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD410, to the first contacts between the old and the new worlds in the late fifteenth century. During these eleven centuries […]
By David Grann. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His […]