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The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to
It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...
Stuff the British Stole
An uproarious, illuminating trek through contested history, from the creator of the hit podcast and TV series. Plt;iPgt;In the days of the British Empire, things were taken that probably shouldnP#8217;t...
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War,
This gorgeously designed, definitive single-volume edition of Julius Caesar's complete works features a new translation, annotations, color maps, and illustrations. The Landmark Julius Caesar is the definitive edition of the...
Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of
A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday,...
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use...
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in...
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
A compelling exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday...
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories
How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his...
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A...
The Orthodox Church: An Introduction To Eastern Christianity
Few books have done more to illuminate the rich and often misunderstood world of Eastern Christianity than this landmark work by Timothy Ware — also known as Metropolitan Kallistos of...
Civilization And Its Discontents
Few works have so permanently altered humanity's understanding of itself as Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, a searing philosophical treatise that argues the very fabric of organised society is...
Shaping The World: Sculpture From Prehistory To Now
What does it mean to shape matter into meaning? Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now is a sweeping, authoritative journey through the entire history of sculpture, co-authored by...
Atlas Of Improbable Places: A Journey To The World's Most Unusual Corners
What lies beyond the edges of the familiar world — in the ghost cities, sunken lands, forbidden zones, and vanished utopias that history left behind? Atlas of Improbable Places charts...
Atlas Of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places And Unimaginable Destinations
What if the most extraordinary places on Earth were never meant to be found? Atlas of Unexpected Places charts a mesmerising journey through the world's most accidental, overlooked, and astonishing...
Globe: Life In Shakespeare's London
At the heart of the most vibrant and dangerous city in the world, Shakespeare's London pulsed with ambition, vice, creativity, and violence — and Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London by...
Atlas Of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Were And As They Are Today
From drowned cities to vanished coastlines, Atlas of Vanishing Places charts a haunting cartographic journey through the world's lost and disappearing landscapes — places that once thrived and now exist...
The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great
An elegant social and architectural history of the Guinness family. In winter 2025/26, the new Netflix epic 'House of Guinness', a saga of Europe's most enduring dynasties, will sweep into...
Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe
Three of Europe's greatest rivers begin in the same geological cradle: one fertile patch of high Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central Switzerland. The consequences of this small...
Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun
A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario, Zelda and PokA (c)mon, and an ode to our love of gaming, by one of the most trusted voices in...
Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist
A thrilling, cinematic saga of a Southern belle whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War. Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all....
Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession
"An engaging romp." - New York Times Book Review "A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target...
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the
"Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book." -Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America...
Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency
A Telegraph Best Book of 2025. A News Statesman Book of the Year 2025. 'David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been'. Dominic Sandbrook 'David Goldblatt...
World Monuments Fund : Irreplaceable: 60 of Humanity's Most Treasured
A call to safeguard some of the most important monuments of our shared cultural heritage From the fabled towers of Babylon and Angkor Wat to the colossal stone heads of...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's...
Twilight Years with the Totterings
Annie Tempest's wonderful cartoon strip about a fictitious English village, with the eccentric Lord and Lady Tottering and their family who reside at Tottering Hall is much lauded and internationally...
1945: A World at the End of War
A vivid portrait of a world at the end of war, told through 12 months from around the globe. 1945 is a fresh look at the last year of the...
Shelf Life: A Journey Through the Past, Present & Future of
Embark on a captivating journey through the ages with Shelf Life, a meticulously crafted exploration of bookselling and publishing spanning two millennia. This engaging narrative, designed for book lovers of...
Odyssey Moscow: One American's Journey from Russia Optimist to
Michael Calvey's story starts with a dawn raid on his Moscow apartment by armed FSB agents, following accusations of embezzlement relating to a commercial deal turned sour. In truth, no...
The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies
Looking back at the impact of Britain's Big Four railway companies, 100 years later. GWR, LMS, LNER and SR: these initials arouse memories of the Cornish Riviera Express, the streamlined...
Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom. Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence,...
A War of Their Own: FULRO: The Other National Liberation Front,
The untold story of a mysterious Montagnard ethnonationalist movement that might have changed the course of the Vietnam War In Vietnam, in 1967, William Chickering commanded a Mike Force battalion...
The 50 Greatest Shipwrecks
When you think of a shipwreck, what image springs to mind? A tall sailing ship on the rocks, or perhaps the sinking Titanic surrounded by lifeboats? Historian Richard M. Jones...
Secrets from the Agatha Christie Archives
Dame Agatha Christie reigns supreme as the 'Queen of Crime.' Numerous books have been written about the legendary crime writer, focusing on nearly every aspect of her craft. But until...
Titanic: Freak Accident or Farce?
There has been speculation over the loss of the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic ever since the tragic event of her sinking, which occurred during the night of Sunday 14...
Tollund Man: Gift to the Gods
On May 6, 1950, Viggo and Emil Hojgaard from the small village of Tollund were cutting mud to find peat for their stove in the Bjaeldskovdal peat bog, 12km west...
High Tea on the Cunard Queens: A Light-hearted Look at Life at Sea
This amusing insight into Cunard's legendary liners begins more than fifty years ago when the author joined the original Queen Mary as an entertainments officer, when a part of the...
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
An instant New York Times bestseller, this "profound book" ( Wall Street Journal ) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar...
Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that
'A salve for our current reactionary times.' ANDREW HARTMAN From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's triumphant...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent," Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave,...
Blackbirding: A reckoning with the Australian slave trade
An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...
The Hitler Bloodline: Uncovering the Fuhrer's Secret Family
Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages. Alois Hitler, ne Schicklgruber, was...
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That
A TLS , TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and...
Hollywood: The Oral History
Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history...
Speed: How it Explains the World
Prepare to view the world through a new lens - SPEED - a groundbreaking exploration that challenges your perceptions of life's driving force, from the internationally bestselling author Explore how...
The Botanic Garden: The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries
This rich and beautiful guide from bestselling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world. There has never been a better time...
Whisky Opus: The Definitive Guide to the World's Greatest Whisky
A definitive 21st-century reference guide to the world's greatest distilleries and their whiskies No other spirit is as complex as whisky; its appeal is timeless and its fans can spend...