The Wood Age, Non-Fiction, Paperback, Roland Ennos

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When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.‘A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood…’ John Carey, The Sunday Times More

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“The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate “A brisk book that illuminates an enormous historical period. . . . Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating.”—Boston Globe More

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A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday Independent. More

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Age of Influence More

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As in ‘Britain B.C.’ and ‘Britain A.D.’ (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. More

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The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. More

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London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. More

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A brilliantly detailed and gripping account of the assassination in 1584 of Prince William of Orange, and the shockwaves it sent through an age. More

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Leading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins. More

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From the author of ‘Britain BC’, ‘Britain AD’ and ‘Britain in the Middle Ages’ comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past More

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A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. More

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This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. More

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A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the... More

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When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change. More