Simon Schama, CBE

The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama, CBE, is an extraordinary narrative that spans more than 3,000 years of Jewish history. Through meticulous research and lively storytelling, Schama brings to life the epic journey of the Jewish people, a tale of resilience, creativity, and survival. This landmark work explores the manifold experiences of Jews across the centuries and across...

A passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between. Great art has dreadful manners... The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm, and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab...

The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount — read Landscape and Memory to have these explained... Landscape and Memory is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us — rivers, mountains, forests — the impact each of them has had on...