Historie

Emily Hauser

Did you love Madeline Miller's Circe? Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls? Jennifer Saint's Elektra? Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships? But did you ever wonder who the real women behind the myths of…

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…

David Reynolds

John Douglas

Adam Higginbotham

Jack Hartnell

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…

Andrea Wulf

Will Hermes

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Janina Ramirez

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…

Scott Anderson

From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller LAWRENCE IN ARABIA a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity…

David Grann

David Grann

Ada Palmer

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge…

John Kampfner

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…

Sarah Helm

On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a…

Andrew Roberts

Chris Miller

Neil Price

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…