Sixer for Twenty-seven Years
What happens when an enemy intelligence officer walks through the door?
Bookshelf
Welcome to the Unseen Histories bookshelf. Here you can read excerpts from new history books as well as browsing our archive of previews. These, published monthly, showcase the boldest and best new history writing across all eras of the past.
The Academie
Anna Mazzolla tells a story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, inspired by the real-life disappearance of children in pre-revolutionary Paris
The Fact of Who I Was
Drawing on the Secret Intelligence Files on Edith Tudor-Hart, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel – by the granddaughter of Kim Philby – tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man
The Village of the Damned
Matthew Green revisits the Welsh village of Capel Celyn, and how it ended up beneath 68 million tonnes of water
Monsieur Auguste Gaudron and his Fabulous Balloon
Katie Munnik relates the true story of Louisa Maud Evans, a fourteen-year old girl who tumbled 8,000 feet into the Bristol Channel
The Battle of White Mountain and the Courage of a Queen
Nadine Akkerman presents a different portrayal of the widely misrepresented and underestimated Elizabeth Stuart
The Trial of Maximilian I, the 'Last Emperor of Mexico'
Edward Shawcross explores ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico who crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne
The Ruin of All Witches
Before Salem there was Springfield. Malcolm Gaskill reveals the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation
The Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester
'Ship Detective' Nigel Pickford unravels a naval disaster during the Restoration
Thebes' West Bank
Garry J. Shaw introduces us to the elaborate temples of the Ancient Egyptians, and their close association with myth and legend