21st Century History

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

' 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...

Growing, growing, gone... Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish. Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo...

'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the...

No.1 international bestseller Jeffery Deaver returns with a stunning thriller - the first in an exciting series featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw. Escape or die trying... Three people are kidnapped...

The very idea of photography is to imitate its motifs as precise as possible. Today's digital images have a preciseness of millions of pixels. But in photography's infancy the act...

For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...

Using the theme of Currency to invite reflection on the contemporary power of the photograph to relay and relate meaning across distance, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg explores the value...

This latest issue of 2G is dedicated to the work of Carla Juacaba, who founded her eponymous architectural practice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2000. Her firm engages in...

Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2015,...

'Terrific' STEPHEN KING Evil has a one track mind... Celebrated children's author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then...

A stunning story of hope, humanity, friendship and high-seas adventure, inspired by Gulliver's Travels 'A sparkling adventure . . . deeply vital for our times' LoveReading4Kids Having fled war-torn Afghanistan...

'Perfect holiday reading' Clare Mackintosh'A gripping story' Jane Casey Once secrets catch, they spread. Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for...

A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. 'This is one of the most important books of our...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dark times lie ahead for Special Agent Ren Bryce and the Rocky Mountains Safe Streets Task Force in the heart-stopping new thriller from the bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and BLOOD...

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...

'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...

The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to...

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...