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Brian C. Muraresku

Angela Y. Davis

Anne Frank

Ian Kershaw

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 command over a terrifying array of instruments…

Antony Beevor

John Kampfner

No other city has had so many faces and so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. The Berlin of the past 800 years has been both haven and hell. It is a…

Malcolm X, Alex Haley

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified in the white press as a teacher of race…

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…

David Grann

Martyn Rady

'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator 'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph…

Angela Saini

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023

Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Holland

Emma Southon

“Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is reminded of Michael Herr's Dispatches . . . Frankly…

Julian Baggini

John Kampfner

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America&rsquo,s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil…

Tom Holland

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. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched…

Hampton Sides

Tom O'Neill

A journalist&#39,s twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to &quot,gobsmacking&quot, (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI&#39,s involvement in this &quot,kaleidoscopic&quot…

Elie Wiesel

Wiesel's trilogy of Holocaust stories offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.

Dorothy Ali

What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions…