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For Your Eyes Only
'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional …
The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French …
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "entertaining and] often-moving account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a …
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners in the Castle, a dramatic portrait of the master thief of the nineteenth century: Adam Worth "Fascinating . . . a brisk, …
The Man Who Would Be King
The true story of a brazen American adventurer who briefly proclaimed himself Prince of Ghor and Lord of the Hazarahs in 1838 by planting an American flag on the Hindu Kush …
The Last Word
Do you know your geek-speak from your geek-chic? Ever wanted to put Humpty Dumpty together again? Can you distinguish Spanglish from Chinglish? We adapt words from other languages, …
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "superb and] intensely readable" (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies …
Forgotten Fatherland
'Startling, dark and absorbing' Independent 'Excellent travel writing: vivid, sympathetic, humorous' Guardian 'Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric' New York Times …