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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane.

Out at the eastern edge of...

Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with...

The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity...

The great epic of the Ancient World comes to life

The story of Carthage is one of the great epics of the Ancient World. And...

One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the...

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous...

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

The restoration of democracy...

George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod,...

London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city

Encircling London...

This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says...

Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs

Hackney, That Rose-Red...

In On Royalty Jeremy Paxman delves deep into Britain's royal past. What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all...

Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical...

'E.H. Carr, author of the monumental History of Soviet Russia, now proves himself to be not only one of our most distinguished...

'Sync' is a story of a dazzling kind of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync. The tendency to...

What happens to your body after you have died?

Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?

Life...

What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstasy or experience road rage? Emotion, says...

Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point,...

Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography...

The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau

In a...

The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in Europe,...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in...

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of...