Now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight a duel to the death.
A revelatory history of one of the UK's much-loved rivers which runs through the world's best-known city, and how it evolved through time to quench Londoner's thirst.
'That nickname . . .' '"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.'
A landmark work of narrative history by the UK's only Aztec historian that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by exploring how the great civilisations of the Americas - the Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - discovered Europe
The story of the slave uprising that took place in the British colony of Demerara - now Guyana - in the Caribbean in 1823, and its momentous consequences