All the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages are ready to uncover, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for. These bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.

The first comprehensive biography for three decades of Margaret Beaufort, mother of the Tudor dynasty.

Nicola Tallis's dramatic retelling of an often misread tale reveals the moving, human story of an extraordinarily intelligent, independent and courageous young woman.

The story of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was ruled by the extraordinarily talented dynasty of emperors known to European travellers as 'the Great Moghuls'.

* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

A timely reexamination of the fate of the Princes in the Tower, crucially asking: 'what if there was no murder?'

From the bestselling author of Rubicon and Persian Fire comes this thrilling panoramic account of the rise of Islam

'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, Guardian