History

Christopher Harding Hardback 464 pages This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centur...

David Grann Paperback 368 pages a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.  On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle ves...

Anthony Grafton Hardback 304 pages A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the...

Anna Reid Paperback From the bestselling author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine The extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution. In ...

Anna Funder Hardback 464 pages Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she...

Hardback Hannah Carlson Who gets pockets, and why?It's a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men's clothes have so many pockets and women's so few? And why are the pockets on women's c...

Ari Shavit Paperback 512 pages A groundbreaking and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today. Facing unprecedented intern...

Stuart A. Reid Hardback 624 pages, 16PP PHOTOS; 1 MAP IN TEXT...

Jo Teeuwisse Hardback 416 pages Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the ...

Marek Kohn Hardback 344 pages, 11 b-w illus. + 1 map Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and ...

John Kampfer Paperback 400 pages Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past...

David Mitchell Paperback Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subje...

Because when you asked your boyfriend how often he thinks about the Roman Empire, it turned out to be never....

Zing Tsjeng Hardback 592 pages Forgotten Women reaches around the world and its history to rediscover, retell and reinstate the lives of over 190 important and significant women. From Neolithic ...

Lynne Olson Paperback 448 pages The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II. In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a youn...

Mark Galeotti Hardback 384 pages The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time. - The TimesA new history of how Putin and his c...

Ian Kershaw Hardback 512 pages One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had comman...

Carlo Rovelli Paperback 208 pages A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner H...

SoftbackValerie Hansen When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1...

SoftbackFrancesca Wade 'I like this London life...the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home ...

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Zeinab Badawi Paperback For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In th...

Norman Ohler Hardback 240 pages Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city. In...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...