History

Jonathan Miles Paperback 455 pages In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Medit

Rebecca Struthers Paperback 259 pages Timepieces are one of humanity's most ingenious innovations. Their invention was more significant for huma

Julie Summers Paperback 416 pages Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixti

Sinclair McKay Hardback 400 pages A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devasta

Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner & Eric Pincas Paperback 240 pages 45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass

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 ti

John Goodlad Hardback 272 pages This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, power

Amy Stanley Paperback 352 pages Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventio

Caroline Moorehead Paperback Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a bri

Keiron Pim Hardback 544 pages The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic

Tom Standage Paperback 272 pages The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 560 pages The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Justin Fenton Paperback 352 pages Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reach

Mary Hollingsworth Paperback 480 pages, 1x24pp colour plates Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so ru

PaperbackFernando Cervantes The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmare

PaperbackStephen Clarke NEW UPDATED EDITION Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. W

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

PaperbackChris Gosden Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic - the idea that we

PaperbackRuth Goodman We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to co

HardbackPeter Turchin What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieva

Frank DikötterPaperback A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening an

Author: David Commins, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 384