Time period: 1945-

One of only two post-war Prime Ministers who can claim to have changed the society in which we live, Attlee was the architect of the NHS and the Welfare State. Beckett presents a biography of the great - and greatly underrated - Labour leader.

When Michael returns to his ordinary life after the Second World War he becomes attached to Karl, a previously robust East Prussian hideously wounded before his capture. King's descriptions of the grimness of the lives of the Germans are etched with memorable sharpness in this novel.

Dave Spencer has always been determined to make the most of life's one ride on the roundabout. From grammar schools to nightclubs, nuclear defence to drugs, his energy has found outlets in travel and transport. This title is a humorous look at a world where Dave discovers his father after 50 year...

Each volume in this series is devoted to a decade of British life and contains around 300 photographs that have been hand-picked by the Press Association from its own archives. Most have lain unseen since they were first used as news pictures.

Roy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister Britain never had. But though he never reached 10 Downing Street, he left a more enduring mark on British society than most of those who did. His career spans the full half-century from Attlee to Tony Blair, during which he helped transform almost ...

Having found fame and success as a model, Christine Keeler's short affair with cabinet minister, John Profumo, lead to the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government. The subject of scandal, intrigue and gossip, she now tells the full story of that extraordinary era in a book that will shatter all...

Noted down, stamped 'secret' and filed away for decades. This book reveals what really went on in the corridors of power. Stored in Whitehall's archives is everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to a miscellany of daily life in Downing Street.

A special omnibus edition - with newly discovered additional text - of the extraordinary wartime memoir 'The Past is Myself' and its sequel, 'The Road Ahead'.

'Legacy of Ashes' makes clear that the CIA has always been a blundering, ruinously incapable organisation, with each decade providing its own low points.

There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 - and they are not the same thing. 1965 was the year Britain democratised education, it was the year pop culture began to be taken as seriously as high art, the time when comedians and television shows imported the methods of modernism into thei...

Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the swinging sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline. The sequel to 'Never Had It So Good', this book completes Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s.

David Peace turns his talents to the most wrenching and socially devastating struggle of the past half-century in Britain: the 1984 miner's strike, which set the government against the people.

Delving into the history and landscape of Canada, Will Ferguson travels the land in search of the people who reflect the character and nature of the country.

In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape.

Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. He discovers that he inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina, that we're all going to explode at the age of 62, that Russians look bad in Speedos (but not as bad as Brits), and that no one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie's lon...

Tony Benn's diaries chronicle both the public and the personal events of the last decade of his life at Westminster and his retirement thereafter.

Noted down, stamped 'secret' and filed away for decades. This book reveals what really went on in the corridors of power. Stored in Whitehall's archives is everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to a miscellany of daily life in Downing Street.

For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth's department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by luxurious dresses and beautiful accessories - the hardships of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Ser...

Born in condemned housing in West London in 1950, with no heating, no electricity and no running water, Alan Johnson did not have the easiest start in life. But by the age of 18, he was married, a father and working as a postman in Slough. This sequel to Alan's bestselling memoir 'This Boy', desc...

The late 1950s and early 1960s were a period in their own right: neither the stultifying 'high' Fifties nor the liberating 'high' Sixties, but instead an action-packed, sometimes dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain started to take shape.