Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond.'A fantastic book' - Lee Child'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times'A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir' – GuardianAfter victory in World War II, ...

An enormously entertaining and original history of England from Simon Winder, the bestselling author of Germania and Lotharingia.Traversing England from the industrial shipyards of Barrow-in-Furness, to the wind-whipped shores of Great Yarmouth, and the smoky jazz clubs of 1940s Soho, Winder reveals a place irrevocably shaped by its imperial past, and by all of those who, for better or worse, have called it home.Winder leads us expertly th...

The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' – IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, i...

A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ...

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond.'A fantastic book' - Lee Child'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times'A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir' – GuardianAfter victory in World War II, ...

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' – Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times'An excellent, rich and amusing read' – The Times, Book of the WeekFor centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw o...

Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.Henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse - and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job - until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life...