Historie

Jon Halliday, Jung Chang

The most exhaustive, authoritative and revealing biography of Mao ever written, and ever likely to be. Jung Chang brings the story-telling skills of her bestseller "Wild Swans" to the book, and together…

Tim Weiner

For the last 60 years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning author Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA--and…

Simon Sebag Montefiore

A fully updated edition of the million-copy-selling SUNDAY TIMES No.1.

Shami Chakrabarti

Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards. They protected…

Frank Dikötter

Volker Ullrich

Scott Anderson

Frederick Taylor

By the author of the best-selling DRESDEN, THE BERLIN WALL has been reissued to coincide with the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Wall had tragic consequences in personal and…

Solomon Northup

A slave narrative, new to "Classics".

Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall…

Viktor E. Frankl

Between 1942-1945 Frankl labored in four different Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his experience, Frankl argues that man cannot…

Eric Carle

Natalie Haynes

Marcus Aurelius

A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor…

Peter Frankopan

*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work'…

John Kampfner

Tim Clare

'The best book on games I've read in years' G.T. KARBER, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of MURDLE'Clare is a fabulous tour guide through the history of table games' Tom Brewster, presenter…

Dan Saladino

Barbara Tuchmanová

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's…

Emma Baxter-Wright

Katherine Howe

CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth…