My Name, if You Must Know, is Adele
Sophie Haydock's electrifying historical debut about four muses and the artist who shocked Vienna
Excerpts
Here you can find excerpts from upcoming history books by world class writers and historians.
The Village of the Damned
Matthew Green revisits the Welsh village of Capel Celyn, and how it ended up beneath 68 million tonnes of water
Monsieur Auguste Gaudron and his Fabulous Balloon
Katie Munnik relates the true story of Louisa Maud Evans, a fourteen-year old girl who tumbled 8,000 feet into the Bristol Channel
The Battle of White Mountain and the Courage of a Queen
Nadine Akkerman presents a different portrayal of the widely misrepresented and underestimated Elizabeth Stuart
The Trial of Maximilian I, the 'Last Emperor of Mexico'
Edward Shawcross explores ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico who crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne
The Ruin of All Witches
Before Salem there was Springfield. Malcolm Gaskill reveals the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation
The Shipwreck of HMS Gloucester in 1682
'Ship Detective' Nigel Pickford unravels a naval disaster during the Restoration
An Historical Tour To Thebes in Egypt
Garry J. Shaw introduces us to the elaborate temples of the Ancient Egyptians, and their close association with myth and legend
