Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age: Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-FictionAuthor: Barraclough, Eleanor European history Published on 5 June 2025 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 384 pages, 8pp colour platesIntegrated B&W images 197 x 129 x 27 326g A Times best History Book of the Year 2024'Every page glittering with insight [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook'Brilliantly written evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news - the son of one of the island's most important families has died

Published on 13 June 2024 by Profile Books Ltd (Economist Books) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Economist Edge' series

from the tomb paintings of Ancient Egypt

the second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Jack Chesher takes you on a journey through London and its history

shop assistants

they make a terrible discovery: their colleague has been murdered on the ice - with a harpoon that should never have been there

A moving and subtle novel in many ways

it falls to Molly to sweep up the clues

Published on 29 December 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in the United Kingdom

254 x 195 | 396g

economic crisis and the first major peasant uprising in English history

1656In Rome’s shadowy backstreets lies an apothecary’s shop – a place for women to take their heartbreaks and troubles