History

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Sam Leith Hardback 592 pages Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond ...

John Goodlad Hardback 272 pages This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and...

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...

Softback Emma Southon Rome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. ‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ —Elodie Harper, author of...

Justinien Tribillon Hardback 208 pages In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's painting...

Mary Beard Paperback 512 pages What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Ro...

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...

Nadine Akkerman - Pete Langman Hardback 368 pages, 60 color illus. +1 map A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to cou...

David Grann Paperback 352 pages From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, and the Number One in...

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages...

Mike Jay Paperback 384 pages A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Until the twent...

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 ...

Peter Burke Paperback 336 pages A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowle...

CLR James - Illustrated by: Sakina Karimjee, Nic Watts Paperback 272 pages The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French suga...

Timothy Garton Ash Paperback 384 pages Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton As...

George Orwell Paperback 272 pages Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I und...

Softback Mike Duncan Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on bo...

Orlando Figes Paperback 368 pages From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country's past - and how they can inform its present. No other c...