Books from Pimlico
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On the Crofters' Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders
By David CraigIn the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing....
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The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague
By Peter H. MarshallIn the late 16th century philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of Rudolf II. What resulted was a golden age of peace...
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Ragged Glories: City Lights, Country Funk, American Music
By Barney HoskynsThis volume is a collection of pieces covering 20 years of music - pop, soul, country and blues - in the US. It includes interviews with Lou Reed, Randy Newman...
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Those who Trespass Against Us: One Woman's War Against the Nazis
By Karolina LanckoronskaBorn in Vienna in 1898, Karolina Lanckoronska was an aristocrat and art historian who taught at the University of Lwow, then part of Poland. When the Soviets came to occupy...
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Warpaths: Travels of a Military Historian in North America
By John KeeganAward-winning historian John Keegan explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over three centuries between Frenchman and Indian, Royalist and colonist, Union and Confederacy, offering compelling profiles of both the land ...
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1066: The Year of the Three Battles
By Frank McLynnIf ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. King Harold faced invasion not just from William and the Normans across...
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All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture
By Jonathon GreenJonathon Green's oral history of the sixties `underground', Days in the Life, has been until now the most complete account of that celebrated - and much maligned - decade. In...
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The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to Casanova
By Paul StrathernThis is a new history of Venice, which looks at the lives of the famous individuals of the Republic to try and define its character.
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
By Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of LiverpoolAlthough Adolf Eichmann stood alone in the dock at Jerusalem, the crimes with which he was charged called for a complete reappraisal of the Nazi policy for exterminating European Jewry....
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Goya: A Life in Letters
By Francisco GoyaGoya was born in 1746. By the time he was 47 he was the highest paid and most famous artist in Spain, had gone profoundly deaf and six of his...
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Continue to Pester, Nag and Bite: Churchill's War Leadership
By Martin GilbertCONTINUE TO PESTER, NAG AND BITE is a brilliant, close-up look at Winston Churchill's leadership during the Second World War. Gilbert gets to the crux of eternal questions that have...
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Congenial Spirits: Selected Letters
By Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf was an inventive, witty correspondent, whether commenting on a domestic crisis, politics, or the roving of the writer's mind. Edited and with an Introduction by Joanne Trautmann Banks; Index.
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Edward Heath: A Biography
By John CampbellThe son of a carpenter, Heath broke the mould of upper-class Tory leaders and suffered years of snobbish mockery. With accomplishments outside politics, in music and international sailing, he is...
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Nothing Less Than Victory: The Oral History of D-Day
By Russell MillerThe Normandy Landings, the largest amphibious operation the world has ever seen, marked ' the beginning of the end of the Second World War'. Russell Miller's superb book offers a...
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Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945
By Paul Addison, Angus CalderIn the 50 years since the end of the Second World War, much has been written about the men at the top, but little attention has been given to what...
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Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey
By Roger ScrutonRoger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to stimulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to...
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
By Angela BourkeThis text offers the story of Bridget Cleary, who in 1895 disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. Some said the fairies had taken her, but then her body was...
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Prima Donna: A History
By Rupert Christiansen"He succeeds admirably. . . sane, serious, committed, invigorating. ' Brian Masters, SPECTATOR 'As compelling readable as it is scholarly. ' Edward Greenfield, GUARDIAN Prima Donnas have always provoked extreme...
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George Stubbs and the Wide Creation: Animals, People and Places in the Life of George Stubbs 1724-1806
By Robin BlakeRobin Blake's book uncovers Stubbs's origins and some of the secrets of his youth: sympathy with the Jacobite rebels and Catholicism; and a previously undocumented wife and family in York.
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Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta
By Hugo VickersMercedes de Acosta was a notorious figure. She had been brought up as a boy and had taken a girlfriend on her honeymoon. Her conquests included Isadora Duncan and Marlene...