21st Century History

To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all. A loving wife, three kids, a great job. But there's something missing, there always has been....

From the "most influential career lawyer in CIA history" ( Los Angeles Times ) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the...

A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over Jerusalem Longlisted for the 2025 Walkley Award On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to...

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de...

Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...

Don't miss the latest utterly emotional thriller, brimming with family drama from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! What happened to her was unforgivable. But what she did was worse... A...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of...

In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death `Impossible to read with dry...

An extensive monograph on this architect and designer's oeuvre Gianni Arnaudo is an architect and designer with a powerful creative drive. After graduating from the Polytechnic of Turin in 1971,...

This is the fourth monograph of the American artist Ann Mandelbaum. It offers both analogue black and white work from 1990-2000 and also digital colour images from 2007-present. None of...

This monograph is unusual in bringing the voices from a wide range of people - writers, curators, gallerists, collectors, colleagues, art critics - who have given way to and influenced...

A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world. Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this...

Going Zero, a high-concept thriller from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten. Erase yourself. The hunt has begun. Perfect for fans of I Am Pilgrim and The Circle. TWO HOURS TO VANISH...

'A vital book. New Power can light a flame bright enough to outshine the glinting fangs and tiki torches' - Russell Brand For most of human history the rules of...

Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and...

'ful l of compelling narrative and telling anecdotes' Sunday Times 'well-researched and engaging' The Financial Times 'outstanding' Washington Post 'one of the best reporters working in Washington today' Jane Mayer...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES B ESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as...

From an 'indispensable voice on China' (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China...

TEN YEARS. TWO LOVES. ONE LAST CHANCE. 'Santopolo is a true master of matters of the heart' Taylor Jenkins Reid ' No one writes about love, in all its beautiful...

A Telegraph Best Book 2025 'Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine's frontlines - some to save democracy, some to save...

THE SUNDAY TIME S BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back...

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2025! Pip's world is small. But it's about to become a whole lot bigger. For years she's tucked...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From...

Readers adore Blackbird : 'An unputdownable and suspenseful read' 'A beautifully written, heartbreaking story' 'A quick paced thriller with an unusual setting. This book will stay with me for a...

Barack Obama approaches the US presidency at a critical moment in American history - facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, and healthcare, but most especially in the economy. If...

Newly updated, this accessible history explores the origins and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What are the origins of the Israeli Palestinian conflict? Why has it proved so intractable, and...

Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom, and...

The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...

'Sensational new book' - MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Bombshell book' - THE SUN 'Tell-all book' - MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Explosive new book' - DAILY MAIL AN UNFLINCHING EXPOSE OF MOHAMED AL-FAYED'S...

The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS and TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN. " In the dark beside me, she smelled of...

' A Neighbour's Guide to Murder is fiendishly sharp, clever and gripping . Nobody captures the mores of neighbourhoods and communities, and multi-generational complexities, like Louise Candlish. She's in a...

In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media and in the world press, and rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night...

'Deliciously dark' Observer 'Fast-paced, deeply disturbing satire ... dripping with tension' Hindustan Times 'A rather breathless thriller' CrimeTime 'Bold and satirical' Culturefly In New York's high-end restaurant scene one chef...

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Fame can be deadly. A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. ____________________________________________________ A FALLEN ROCKSTAR. ONE LAST CHANCE...

At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. It...

Well away from major land battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War, and curious eyes of the public, the navies of the two involved parties fought a major naval war. Ironically, the...

'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...

Founded in 1948, the Israeli Air Force has seen involvement in some of the most dramatic and important conflicts of post-War history. In action during the Suez crisis and on...

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Political Book of the Year 'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times 'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' -...

The essential guide to the story of London's acclaimed museum - from its origins in the 1980s to its pivotal move in 2016 London's Design Museum is entering an exciting...

An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of...

In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...

During the Jubilee Year 2000, the Vatican and the city of Rome will seek to reaffirm their universal relevance to the Catholic church, and to the world, as they have...

A century-old mystery - and a desperate battle to survive. Abandon is a compulsive standalone thriller from Blake Crouch, the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion....

How does Italy really work? The bestselling author on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising There is no world for whistle-blower...

Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? This book...

Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men (and a Sarah who used to be a George) - witnessed by Craig Taylor,...