Empire

From the bestselling author of The English comes the story of the British Empire not only the way Britain influenced the world but how empire shaped Britain. Accompanies a major 6-part BBC TV series written and presented by Jeremy Paxman - one of the BBC's most expensive productions and will therefore be hugely promoted by them. Enormous public appetite for these big histories - Simon Schama's History of Britain sold 220k TCM; Andrew Marr's A History of Modern Britain sold 170k TCM - and Paxman is the perfect person to write it: vivid history, wonderful anecdotes, told in a witty and accessible style.