Saint PetersburgBuilt by slave labour in the early years of the 18th century, Saint Petersburg was Peter the Great's so called 'window on to Europe', a city that would outdo all of Europe in its splendour. But a window works both ways, and as bestselling historian Sinclair McKay writes, St Petersburg has always been a city that has drawn Westerners who wanted to see into Russia. It is also a city where much has happened. It was St Petersburg until 1917, Petrograd

destroy individual liberty and twist facts in order to build the utopias they wanted

but with little success so far

Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman

she begins to come back to life

But no one wants to admit it

His early work is being republished and together the two of them must revisit those old stories: an author

the successor to Mohammed

sea serpents

he is determined to steal the King's immortality and kill the entirety of his court

But when Kelda finds a death mask concealed behind one of the walls

contemporary accounts and personal insight

This title journeys from Caesar to Brexit via conquest