First published in 1999, this is an account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. Chronicling what has happened since 1994 and through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life Gourevitch focuses on the psychological challenges of survival and the stubborness of the human spirit in a world of extremity.

Hardback reissue of a classic study of women in Civil War England - part of THE SIX LIVES OF ANTONIA FRASER promotion

Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.

A book about the author's travels around the Siberia.

Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London.

Mary Nisbet shone as the wife of Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. In the earliest years of marriage, Mary was her husband's staunchest ally, but following Thomas' incarceration under Napoleon, her feelings began to cool and she became involved with his best friend, causing a major scandal.