21st Century History

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...

Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...

A new history of command from 'one of Britain's foremost military thinkers' (Observer) Throughout history, the concept of command - as both a way to achieve objectives and as an...

Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...

A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English 'Spain is different,'...

#1 Bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain - goes next We live in an age of upheaval....

One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of Trump, and the continued pull...

How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...

From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed 'A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but...

The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse 'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy The story of two couples who live in...

The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...

One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to imagine anything because we...

She lives in fear of ... THE KNOCK Dora O'Brien had a good start in life, but things went bad when she began to mix with the wrong company. Pregnant...

The second book in this two-volume survey, readers are invited to re-examine the history of the West and its art through a multi-faceted contemporary lens. More than 30 artists are...

A comprehensive study of the training aircraft used to transition the United States military into the jet age. At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating...

FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...

From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierras, trained wildland firefighter and photojournalist Stuart...

From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierras, trained wildland firefighter and photojournalist Stuart...

'Totally, brilliantly original.' Stephen King on HEX'Creepy and gripping and original' - George R.R. Martin on HEXThe latest spine-chilling horror thriller from the Hugo award-winning author, Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Perfect...

THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIESA new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about...

Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...

DISCOVER THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA - FROM A MAN WHO'S SEEN IT ALL FROM THE INSIDEIn BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former mafia member Louis Ferrante pulls back...

The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found?"[Slider is] one of Britain's most...

DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge!When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic...

Killer secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author."McAvoy is a true original" Mick HerronDS Aector McAvoy is on a...

THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIESA new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about...

Dark secrets are revealed when investigative journalist and horse expert Ben Copperfield is hired to find the long-lost heir of a dying millionaire in this gripping murder mystery.When freelance journalist...

'Another outstanding geopolitical thriller in Hawksley's excellent Rake Ozenna series . . . carefully researched, action-packed, and suspenseful' -Booklist Starred ReviewMajor Rake Ozenna faces dangerous choices and deadly consequences in...

Power, money, murder . . . Investigating a seemingly accidental death leads DCI Bill Slider and his team down a dark path in this gripping British police procedural.The woman lies...

'THIS BOOK IS SO FUN AND HOT AND EXCEPTIONALLY WRITTEN!!'Reader review, 'I melted into this book and loved every minute of it - if you're looking for a contemporary story...

The unputdownable new rollercoaster read from Sunday Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer - one of the must read books of 2024! 'An absolute page-turner' reader review'Impossible to put down' reader review'So...

Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes...

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of...

In 2022, The Museum of Modern Art and the Statens Museum for Kunst will present an ambitious dossier exhibition focusing on Henri Matisse's Red Studio from 1911. The large painting...

James Waite has been a skilled railway photographer for many years. In this book he has brought together photographs of many of the world's steam-worked narrow gauge railways in the...

As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts....

Post Privatisation Diesels and Electrics is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of several books covering trains throughout much of the world. This book looks...

James Waite has been a skilled railway photographer for many years. In this book he has brought together photographs of many of the world's steam-worked narrow gauge railways in the...

'A spirit-lifting debut'DAVID MITCHELL'I will never forget these characters: so pained and funny, so brilliantly drawn, wrestled with and forgiven'HELEN GARNER'Meltingly warm'OBSERVERLocal boy Teo Erskine is back in the north...

'A spirit-lifting debut'DAVID MITCHELL'I will never forget these characters: so pained and funny, so brilliantly drawn, wrestled with and forgiven'HELEN GARNER'Meltingly warm'OBSERVERLocal boy Teo Erskine is back in the north...

The revolution will not take place indoors.Kenyan beekeeper-turned-farmer Jess de Boer embarks upon a decade-long journey to find purpose and potential in the explosive world of regenerative agriculture.From honey hunting...

*The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021*'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life...

Cutting-edge science meets demonic possession: the long-awaited new supernatural thriller from award-winning author Lynn Hightower."A spooky, suspenseful masterpiece. Super-recommended!" - LEE CHILD, #1 international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher...

Ellen Curtis is about to have her own life thrown into chaos in this third light-hearted decluttering mystery!"Brett layers the old-fashioned puzzle with deep psychological insights . . . Not...

Dr Claire Roget's patient may have told her last lie, but can the truth about her death be uncovered?Poppy Kelloway was a liar. Forensic psychiatric Claire Roget's patient made up...

A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson.When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into...

What would you do to save someone you loved? Husband and father Jon Levande has to ask himself that very question when his daughter is on the brink of death....

The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...