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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...
Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023 "Will surely become the definitive account."-Stephen...
Medieval Europe
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
Explorers: A New History
Unfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange. Familiar...
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land:
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS OF 2025 A TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A...
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series. From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder,...
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in April 1943 led...
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era,...
Language City: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin,...
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of
We cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people - especially those most often unheard.Leah Thomas coined the term 'intersectional environmentalism' to describe the inextricable link between...
Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
'Illuminating, thoughtful and scholarly' FINANCIAL TIMES'Does a fascinating job of exploring the history of women's bodies' GREG JENNER'Mind-blowing, fascinating stuff' BBC WOMAN'S HOUR'Authoritative, rich and wide-ranging, this is an immensely...
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World
'Remarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted.' PHILIPPE SANDS, author of The Last Colony WINNER OF THE 2023 RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD The story of leprosy is the...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 'Supremely enjoyable . . . With a...
Is Peace Possible?
Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform....
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF...
The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives...
Gaza Faces History
Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Do Palestinians...
Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire
The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we...
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - from the...
Street Style: Dr. Martens: A visual history of the iconic brand
A collectible, pocket-sized visual history of the ground-breaking and ground-shaking street style brand. Discover the story of Dr. Martens, from its beginnings in 1901 as a producer of sturdy work...
Street Style: Nike: A visual history of the iconic brand
A collectible, pocket-sized visual history of the innovative athletic and street style brand. Discover the story of Nike, from its beginnings in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports to its current...
Astrologica: An Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends From the Planets,
Big, bold and beautiful, this is the enthralling celestial follow-up to Mythologica: Amazon's No. 1 Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019.How did the moon influence mighty emperors in Ancient...
Lost Gardens of the World: An Atlas of Forgotten Horticultural
A romantic illustrated journey through forty captivating gardens lost to time. All over the world, once-flourishing horticultural spaces have been abandoned and forgotten. From the once-crumbling grandeur of the Villa...
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five
A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five...
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024 A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024' 'A searing expose' Glamour 'A timely reminder of the dangers posed...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the...
Chamber Divers
'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives . 'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives ....
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles,...
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of...
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground
27th November 1918, London. Just 16 days after the end of the Great War, with the nation on its knees, Billie Carleton takes to the stage for the last time....
The Art of War and Peace: The Changing Face of 21st Century Warfare
FOREWORD BY SIR NICK CARTER, FORMER UK CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF How have the character and technology of war changed in recent times? Why does battlefield victory often fail to...
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating'...
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration-good statesmanship is needed...
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships
A rebellious new history of female friendship and timely reclamation of the 'bad friend'. Move over idealised BFFs, glossy gal pals and indestructible work wives. Meet the bad friends. The...
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2025 From Wilkie Collins to the...
A Little History of Poetry
A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"- New York Times Book Review Poetry is language made special,...
A Little History of Literature
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today's graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has...
A Little History of Philosophy
A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so...
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of...
A Little History of Music
A superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal's bone...
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long...
The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing
A vivid new history of how medieval people around the world perceived the moon When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was...
Ignorance: A Global History
"A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance"-Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "A declaration of love for education"-Stefan Bauer, History Today "Dazzling . . . a deliciously knowledgeable...
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
"Fascinating."-Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian "Richly detailed and frequently illuminating."-Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) "Excellent."-Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick A provocative and original history...
The World of the Crusades
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious...
Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire From plebeians refusing...