Historie

Charlie English

Serhii Plokhy

'A necessary book - and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it' Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl…

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…

Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Holland

Hallie Rubenhold

BY THE AUTHOR OF MULTI-AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: THE FIVE, THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER Page-turning true crime story of infamous wife-murderer Dr Crippen in Edwardian England…

The turbulent age that straddles the first millennium is brought to life in a history worthy of a modern television epic. -Financial Times Thrilling history provides a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo…

Frank Dikötter

Annie Jacobsen

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize &ldquo,In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what…

Anne Applebaum

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays…

Barbara Kingsolver

The debut work by bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Greg Grandin

Jon Savage

A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage.

Caroline Fraser

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest &mdash, a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath…

Ben Macintyre

Dan Jones

Eugene Rogan

Clare Mulley

Ron Chernow

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, under Halley's Comet, the rambunctious Twain was an early teller of tall tales. He left his home in Missouri at an early age, piloted steamboats on the Mississippi…

Tom Phillips

Hampton Sides

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death'An astounding tale . . . recreated…

Harald Jähner

Simon Hall

Tim Weiner