History

David Mitchell Paperback / 448 pages A funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. Think you know your kings and queen...

Bettany Hughes Paperback Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of ...

James Vincent Paperback 432 pages A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space ...

Otto English Paperback From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idol...

Gyles Brandreth Hardback 576 pages Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Thro...

Michael Pye Softback 400 pages This is a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the worl...

Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 368...

Author: Diana Darke, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 480...

Author: Robert O. Paxton , Cover: Softback, Pages: 336...

Author: Mohsen M. Milani , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 368...

Author: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 560...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 376, Author: Jeremy Mynott...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 192, Author: John Koerner...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 544, Author: Timothy Snyder...

Author: David McWilliams , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 416...

Author: Fin Dwyer , Cover: Softback, Pages: 400...

Author: Jack Weatherford , Cover: Softback...

Author: Charlie Porter, Cover: Softback, Pages: 368...

Graham Robb Paperback 496 pages edals along with never a dull paragraph . . . dazzling' - The Sunday TimesThe Discovery of France is an award-winning modern non-fiction classic. A literary ex...

Yepoka Yeebo Paperback 400 pages The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th century’s longest and most audacious frauds. When Ghana dec...

Andrea di Robilant Paperback DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in V...

Softback Michelle McNamara The masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from the late Michelle McNa...

Ned Boulting Paperback 288 pages The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923 he set abou...

Tom Holland Paperback 448 pages The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age...