c 1000 CE to c 1500

From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in 'A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages', inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landma...

Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again. In 'Unruly', David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they app...

Sail back to a vicious time with fearsome seafaring Viking warriors with big boats, big shields and enormous ginger beards. Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings, including Viking gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues.

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Charles Spencer tells the real story behind the legend to show how one cataclysmic shipwreck changed England's course.

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Charles Spencer tells the real story behind the legend to show how one cataclysmic shipwreck changed England's course.

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, 'The Wife of Willesden' is a riotous 21st century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue', brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road.

It's time to delve into the totally true (sort of) and incredibly intriguing pages of 'William the Conqueror's Secret Diary'. Terry Deary steps into the mind of one of history's most annihilating kings, bringing you William the Conqueror's thoughts on: the Normans! England! Matilda! the French! m...