History

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: Fergal Tobin, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304...

Jessica Hamel-Akre Paperback The day Jessica Hamel-Akre discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as 'Dr Diet' - it sparked an intelle...

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...

Nina Edwards Hardback 224 pages This book unravels the intimate narratives woven into the fabric of our most personal garments. From the first loincloths to the intricate layers of shapewear, the...

Alice Loxton Hardback 336 pages At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you've got the plague . . . From a young Elizabeth Tu...

Hampton Sides Paperback On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years l...

Yepoka Yeebo Paperback 400 pages The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th century’s longest and most audacious frauds. When Ghana dec...

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...

Ned Boulting Paperback 288 pages The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923 he set abou...

Mary Beard Paperback 512 pages What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Ro...

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...

Eugene Rogan Hardback 400 pages This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which...

James Shapiro Hardback 384 pages From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that eng...

David Grann Paperback 352 pages From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, and the Number One in...

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...

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages...

Andrea Komlosy Paperback 272 pages Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and region...

Mike Jay Paperback 384 pages A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Until the twent...

Steven Hahn Hardback...

Jonn Elledge Paperback People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines migh...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...

Peter Burke Paperback 336 pages A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowle...

Nigel Townson Paperback 608 pages SA revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to...