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The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle
Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
Lamborghini 60 Years
Author: James Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Celebrate six decades of outrageous, unforgettable Lamborghini cars with this must-have volume featuring fascinating history and stunning photography. Sixty years ago,...
London Perceived: A Portrait of The City
Author: V.S. Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He...
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a...
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
Author: Nick Dyrenfurth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Acclaimed historians Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno tell the story of the Australian Labor Party's rich history of more than 130...
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world
Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 ** Shortlisted, 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award ** Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in...
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Author: Guido Alfani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes
Author: Victoria Flexner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 For every lover of food culture, this scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Macquarie
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Author: Professor Peter Frankopan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY...
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpicks...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Paris as it fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland...
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the...
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation
Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In...
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
Author: Edward Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Superbly entertaining.' - Financial Times 'Jaw-dropping.' - Sunday Times 'Fascinating.' - Guardian 'Gripping.' - The Times 'Terrific . . . A...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
Death Was Their Co-Pilot
Author: Michael Dorflinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off...
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse
Author: Graham Hancock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality....
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution...
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
Author: Michael Broers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to...
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
Author: Robert Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 King-makers. Conspirators. Criminals. Nobles. Seducers. The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats...
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists,...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in...
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings
Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other...
Gay Life Stories
Author: Robert Aldrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what...
The Queen's Speeches: Poignant and Inspirational Speeches from Queen Elizabeth II's 70-Year Reign
Author: Lucy York Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 During her 70-year reign she delivered many poignant, touching and inspirational speeches, always with a warmth and sincerity, many of which...
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Author: David Talbot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You...
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this...
Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens A short history of everybody for...
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die...
Down and Out in Paris and London: The classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was...
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this...
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile...