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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical...
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history. Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and...
The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth
'An incredible and stirring story . . . a mix of competition, camaraderie as well as a larky sense of adventure . . . Down goes the flag. Smash goes...
Turning to Stone
'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is...
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025* 'Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing' Daily Telegraph 'A richly rewarding account of a resonant cultural moment' Guardian 'Textured...
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 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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An Analysis of Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic
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GRASS WIDOW AND HER COW
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Airforce Blunders
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Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43
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Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38
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Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
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Unnatural Murder: Poison In The Court Of James I: A Gripping Historical Whodunnit for fans of MARY & GEORGE
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Born in 1943?: What Else Happened?
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Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life
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Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
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Christmas in Pennsylvania
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Duke Hamilton is Dead: A Story of Aristocratic Life and Death in Stuart Britain
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About Town: the "New Yorker" and Town it Made
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Walls: A History of Civilization
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1942: Britain at the Brink
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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
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Geoffrey Regan's Book of Military Blunders
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Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception
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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
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Fascism: A Warning
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Our Age: The Generation That Made Post-war Britain
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Plunder: a memoir of family property and stolen Nazi treasure
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Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin...
Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime
'Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot' Felipe FernA!ndez-Armesto, author of 1492'Accessible and entertaining, as well as deeply...
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world - how can we adjust to this new reality and what lessons can we...
Trelawny's Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND...
Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town
Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another world. Besieged by Syrian government forces since 2011, its people were...
1215: The Year of Magna Carta
On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal...
Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the Future of the Past
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959-89
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Reading, Writing, Leaving Home: Life on the Page
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Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel
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Jacksonland
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We Need Snowflakes: In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended. As featured on R4 Woman's Hour
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The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America
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Futuh Al-Habasha: The Conquest of Abyssinia
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Sainthood in Australia: Mary Mackillop and the Print Media: Mary Mackillop and the Print Media
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St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages
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A Century of Ambivalence: Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union - 1881 to Present
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The Tapestry Story: 150 Years Celebration of the Mcg
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