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'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'
Biting and timeless...

100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the...

Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human...

From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna...

Dying.
Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet.
New idols are...

An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and...

Getting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects immigration but is dependent...

Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from...

Financial Times Book of the Year
Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year
Guardian Book of the Year
New Statesman Book of the...

The New York Times Bestseller

'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever...

Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all...

Around the Ying Zheng, king of Qin, became the first emperor of China. He had new ideas and made new laws. He built big palaces –...

There was life before the fall.
1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse...

AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY
In the seventy thousand years that...

'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran
'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer
A fresh,...

'The best new narrative of the battle thus far, reflecting his gifts for fluent prose and moving quotations.' Max Hastings,...

Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815...

A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.
Why did the great...

Travel back in time with the latest instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series, in a brand new portable format.
The Little...

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. John F. Kennedy on Winston Churchill
During the darkest days of World...

Eatwell... , Goodwin...

A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism.
Across the West,...

An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the...

With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human...

'You see, if only they didn't speak English in America, then we'd treat it as a foreign country - and probably understand it a...

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Great...

#1 New York Times Bestseller
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes...

Shortlisted for the Wolfson history prize, the Pushkin House russian book prize and the Longman history today prize 2017 the...

More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description'...

Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein,...

No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in...