History & Classics
Hard Streets
Jacqueline Riding
Welcome to the hard streets: working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from the author of Hogarth and Peterloo
A Shellshocked Nation
Alwyn Turner
A fresh and inventive social history of interwar Britain, from Armistice and the Spanish flu to the announcement of war
Advance Britannia
Alan Allport
A major – and global – history of how the Second World War was won, by the author of Britain at Bay
We Survived the Night
Julian Brave NoiseCat
An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent
How to Build a Haunted House
Caitlin Blackwell Baines
A grand tour of the haunted house through art, architecture, ghost stories and more
Sparta
Andrew Bayliss
From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of an ancient superpower
No King In Israel
Anshel Pfeffer
How Israel's democracy fractured, and what has happened to its founding principles since 1948
Augustine the African
Catherine Conybeare
A groundbreaking reassessment of one of Christianity's foundational thinkers from award-winning classicist Catherine Conybeare
To the Sea by Train
Andrew Martin
A lively history of the seaside holiday by train from Britain's 'Bard of the Buffer'
Native Nations
Kathleen DuVal
A Pulitzer-Prize winning new history of indigenous Americans, by the winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize
Extractive Capitalism
Laleh Khalili
An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalisation – and how to fight back
No Ordinary Deaths
Molly Conisbee
A vibrant, compelling social history of death, dying, and how our ends shape our lives and societies
The Illegals
Shaun Walker
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel
Forgotten
Raja Shehadeh
From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise
Holy Places
Kathryn Hurlock
An exploration of pilgrimage, through nineteen breath-taking sites across the globe
Vietdamned
Clive Webb
The untold story of the writers and philosophers who took on the United States government for its war in Vietnam
Collared
Chris Pearson
The story of human and dog companionship in the modern world – from street dogs to pampered pedigrees
Jewish Country Houses
Juliet Carey
A unique angle on Jewish and country house history, beautifully illustrated with original photography by leading architectural photographer Hél…
Church Going
Andrew Ziminski
An insightful and charming history of Britain's churches – by an author who spends his life working in them