History

Joshua Paul Dale

Irresistible

Louis Ferrante

The Mafia

Louis Ferrante is an international bestselling author, global business speaker, and television host for Discovery Networks International. His books have been translated into fifteen languages and his tele…

Edward Brooke Hitchi

Love A Curious History Ha

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and The Madman’s Library (Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year) comes a magnificent new illustrated work. From prehistoric carvings and an…

Philippa Gregory

Normal Women

David Reynolds

Churchill

Tom Fletcher

Life on our Planet

Brian C. Muraresku

The Immortality Key

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and a real-life quest for the Hol…

Mary Beard

Emperor of Rome

Ian Kershaw

Personality and Power

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 instrument…

Natalie Haynes

Divine Might

John Guy

Hunting the Falcon

King Henry VIII: the man whose passion - verging on obsession - for one woman changes the course of history. Anne Boleyn: the woman who risked everything for a crown - and lost. We think we know how the …

John Lewis-Stempel

Woodston

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Lewis-Stempel is one of our finest nature writers ... He writes with delicate observation and authority, giving us in Woodston a book teeming with fascinating details, anecd…

Jake Adelstein

The Last Yakuza

'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else.' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo Vice When acclaimed journalist Jake Adelstein hires a former Yakuza boss, known …

Pragya Agarwal

Hysterical

In Hysterical, Dr Pragya Agarwal delves into history and science to determine the truth about our notions of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact …

Serhii Plokhy

Atoms and Ashes

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY 'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and th…

Diarmuid Hester

Nothing Ever Just Disappears

At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams about the sun-warmed bodies of ancient Greece. Under the d…

Simon Sebag Montefiore

The World

A thrilling, epic and original history of humanity from a dazzlingly fresh and global perspective, from the prize-winning, bestselling historian

Erik Brouwer

The Fighter of Auschwitz: The Incredible True Story of Leen Sanders Who Boxed to Help Others Survive

'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to the gas chamber.' In 1943, the Dutch champion boxer, Leen Sander…

James Crawford

The Edge of the Plain

Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in human history. Beginning with the earliest known example, Crawford travels to borders old and new: from a melting glacial landscape to the fa…