History

Katherine Rundell Paperback 352 pages John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable o...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256, Author: Wolfgang Munchau...

Author: Robert Peckham, Cover: Softback, Pages: 448...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 288...

Tom Holland Paperback 448 pages The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age...

Quinn Slobodian Paperback 352 pages Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globaliz...

SoftbackFrancesca Wade 'I like this London life...the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home ...

Saidiya Hartman Paperback 560 pages In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman draws together a striking portrait of nineteenth-century slavery and its many afterlives. ...

Anthony Bale Paperback 464 pages _From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel ...

Softback Michelle McNamara The masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from the late Michelle McNa...

Florian Illies Paperback 336 pages 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anx...

Ian Mortimer Paperback 256 pages The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as...

Christopher Wilson Paperback 272 pages It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Brothor Diggory's life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever closer and the ...

Author: Kate Mosse, Cover: softback, Pages: 432...

Author: William Dalrymple, Cover: Softback, Pages: 608...

Richard J. King Paperback 512 pages Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these ...

Author: Charlie Porter, Cover: Softback, Pages: 368...

John Goodlad Hardback 272 pages This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and...

Graham Robb Paperback 496 pages edals along with never a dull paragraph . . . dazzling' - The Sunday TimesThe Discovery of France is an award-winning modern non-fiction classic. A literary ex...

Catherine Fletcher Paperback Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built All r...

George Stephanopoulos Paperback 368 pages George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, ...

Tabitha Stanmore Paperback It's 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing trial. Maybe you're looking for ...

Softback Lisa Hilton In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents' home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its own right, but this is no ordi...

Neil McKenna Paperback 416 pages London, April 1870: Fanny and Stella were no ordinary Victorian women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton. Stella...