Author: Simon Schama

This splendid and often moving work of history Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing ...

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life again...

A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling...

Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait ...

This splendid and often moving work of history Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing ...

Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, f...

This dazzling, unconventional biography shows us why, more than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on our im...

Great art has dreadful mannersThe hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and begui...

''Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for poli...

Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for politi...

Cy Twombly (19282011) created art that was remarkable for its versatility, sensitivity and originality. Throughout his career, he followed his own ...

On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights...