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George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the political and sexual scandals that take place in Britain's royal palaces.

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Looks at how Norway has reinvested its oil revenue over the past 18 years to ensure its benefit for future generations, long after the oil itself is exhausted. The current generation of Norwegians now enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world, this is story of how they did it.

It is now a commonplace argument that capitalism is under threat. But what is the underlying problem?This brilliant book by the bestselling author of The Rotten Heart of Europe argues that both capitalism's defenders and its detractors are wrong. The principal culprit is not the moral failure of individuals, nor structural failures in politics and society - glaring though failures of both sorts have been. Instead, there has been a catastrophic...

Looks at the life of Henri Lafont, a petty criminal who became the most powerful crook in Paris thanks to the Nazi occupation of France, and his mob of gangsters who looted the city.

The trajectory of the French national football team from their first World Cup win in 1998, which was also the year of Kylian Mbappé's birth, to their second in 2018 - Mbappé's breakthrough moment - taken stock of by sports journalist Matthew Spiro, as either the dawn of a world-dominating new generation of les bleus or a fleeting and fortuitous moment.

The impact of inter-ethnic wars across twentieth century Europe on the football culture in these conflicted regions is explored by football and politics specialist O'Connor who has contributed to such publications as "The Independent", "New Internationalist" and "VICE".

A history of the royal family's association with Kensington Palace, where the younger members of the family have typically lived.

An extraordinary and highly amusing menagerie of bizarre animal facts and tales from an award-winning BBC wildlife film-maker.

A fair and urgent criticism of Britain's attitude to the Royal family, presenting the extent of the public money wasted on these figures of dubious relevance and drawing attention to the sycophantic character of the disproportionately expansive media attention to them. Baker was also the author of "The Strange Death Of David Kelly".

As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in the Second World War. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the Middle East. But, most remarkably, it was entirely fictitious. This network of imagined informants peddled dangerously false information to Levi's unwitting German handlers. His efforts would dist...

A collection of spy stories combining fact and fiction to thrilling effect, featuring work by John le Carre, Ian Fleming, Joseph Conrad and many more.

Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener is most famous today as the face of the poster that led country's recruitment drive during the early part of the First World War. But in recent years, with the recent release of records by the government, it has been the nature of his death that has stirred up passions long forgotten. At the beginning of the campaign he had been appointed the Secretary of State for War by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. A contro...

The life of "Daily Express" runner, wartime aircraft production overseer and friend/enemy to the great and the good Max Beaverbrook is considered in relation to the pivotal events of the first half of the twentieth century.

The ambassador to South Africa and the US who was referred to as Thatcher's favourite diplomat tells stories from his occupational experience, drawing from his work with Thatcher and also his time working with George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton.

The authors argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fueled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of the future.