21st Century History

Taboo breakers. Films that pushed boundaries, overstepped the line or simply went all out to shock. Whether through their advertising or their content these are the movies that used shock...

Willem Holleeder is one of the most notorious criminals in contemporary history. Best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of Alfred Heineken, CEO and Chairman of Heineken, and...

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White House The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on...

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both...

The unputdownable new novel from international bestseller Jeffrey Archer! In one of the most luxurious cities on earth... A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night...

'Had me in a chokehold from beginning to end... A true five star read' Lisa Jewell 'Devious and dizzying, with twist after twist after twist - I loved it' Louise...

Sometimes perfection is worth killing for... The second gripping crime novel in an exciting new series. Ex-priest DI Frank Farrell finds himself on the trail of a vicious killer in...

Jane Hawk faces the fight of her life The No.1 New York Times bestseller and master of suspense Dean Koontz returns with a blockbuster thriller featuring rogue FBI agent Jane...

How far would you go to keep your family safe? The gripping new page-turner from the Sunday Times bestselling author of One Minute Later Angie Watts used to have everything....

Winter in Manhattan...and someone's keeping a secret. The day her husband Alex picks up a backpack and goes travelling, Angela Clark promises to stay out of trouble and keep both...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid...

One of Sarah's daughters died. But can she be sure which one? THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING NOVEL A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON...

A very personal look at Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Cindy Wockner was a journalist reporting the story of two surly drug smugglers. She was there from the beginning and...

For three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up...

A TAXONOMY OF OFFICE CHAIRS is an exhaustive visual history of the office chair. The book illustrates over 180 of the most innovative office chairs, from the 1840s to the...

An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia...

The World's Best Players Celebrate the greatest footballers from the world game's current era. The Stars of Football profiles over 90 players, telling the stories of their rise and successes....

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public...

This real-life "Ocean's Eleven" provides a thrilling in-depth study detailing the better-than-fiction heist of the century. It is a combination of diamond history, journalistic reportage and riveting true-crime story. The...

A richly diverse selection from the original garden writings produced by the quarterly periodical Hortus over the last twenty-one years. 'Some of the best garden writing you could find anywhere.'...

This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization of colonial legacies-particularly those which implicate her family history and the Black diaspora...

The artist Kubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her life as a woman and a person with direct experience as a refugee. This...

Seventy Five at Seventy Five is about the visual working life of US photographer Abe Frajndlich, starting from the 1970s to the present. The book covers his myriad themes and...

Some of Nick Brandt's subjects are humans, some are animals, but they all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The overwhelming sense in the photographer's ongoing global series The...

It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for the first time-from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand-tens....

Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and...

With the world's second-largest (and fastest expanding) economy, a population of more than 1.3 billion, a place at the core of the G20, a permanent seat on the UN Security...

Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found...

Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The seven rules...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to his Sunday Times bestselling Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis...

No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution...

A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other again From the internationally bestselling author of The...

An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 This is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and...

James Blake's life was getting better every day. A rising tennis star and People magazine's Sexiest Male Athlete of 2002, he was leading a charmed life and loving every minute...

You think you know what happened that night But the truth is far more dangerous ... 'Exquisitely told by the author of last year's bestselling debut Anna O ... just...

'I loved it! I read this book in a (very pleasant) day' Sue Moorcroft, Sunday Times bestselling author ' Captured perfectly the essence of the fake-dating trope... Really enjoyable and...

'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A story of poverty, generosity and worlds...

From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala , this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat...

A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism,...

Wish You Were Dead is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Peter James. Roy Grace and his family have left Sussex behind for a week's holiday in France....

'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...

"Britsoft documents a vibrant period of invention in Britain's cultural history - the start of a new form of entertainment, created on ZX Spectrums, Commodore 64s, Amigas and Atari STs,...

A massive New York Times bestseller- the untold true story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers on 9/11; the blackest day in living memory. ________________________________________ The only...

'Funny, inspiring and uplifting' Nina Stibbe 'Raging, outrageous and joyous' Nikki May 'A must-read for all people-pleasers! ... Explosive, funny, thought-provoking' Good Housekeeping From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes...

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...

'It whisked me away on a much-needed holiday' Beth O'Leary 'I can't remember the last time a book made me forget I had a phone' Stacey Halls 'What an absolute...

We can't choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. 'A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads...

'Sweet, funny and lovely!' Marian Keyes A romantic treat, perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan! You can go crazy searching for the one... Nina is addicted to...