Historie

Jonn Elledge

Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOE People have been drawing lines…

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…

Laurence Rees

Drawing on new eyewitness testimony from the author s archive of which he spent 25 years meeting and interviewing survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. This is by far the clearest book ever written…

Akala

Thomas Harding

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of HANNS AND RUDOLF, THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE and BLOOD ON THE PAGE, pre-order the gripping story of an unsolved triple-murder which took place against the extraordinary…

David Grann

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Erling Kagge

The Norwegian explorer, philosopher and acclaimed writer chronicles his historic 58-day journey to the North Pole on skis in this gripping and thought-provoking memoir that is also a profound meditation…

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

Alex Christofi

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…

Mary Hollingsworth

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…

Discover the fascinating details of life under the pharaohs - and their extraordinary legacy - in this comprehensive guide to Egypt's ancient civilization. Encompassing 3,000 years and 31 Egyptian dynasties…

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.

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…

Ramita Navai

Far removed from the picture of Tehran we glimpse in news stories, there is another, hidden city, here survival depends on an intricate network of lies and falsehoods It is a place where Mullahs visit…

Bruce Chatwin

Edith Eger

Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power…

Harald Jähner