History & Classics
Our History & Classics books are ideal for readers of ancient, military and social history. Mary Beard brings ancient Greece and Rome to life in SPQR, Emperor of Rome and Talking Classics; Rashid Khalidi unpacks the Middle East in his internationally acclaimed The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine and Andrew Martin chronicles the British seaside holiday in the Sunday Times bestseller To the Sea by Train.
Finding Aladdin
Matthew Teller
A captivating tale of literary deduction, uncovering the legendary storyteller behind the Arabian Nights
The Wordspotter's Guide
Olivia Swarthout
An illuminating excavation of our linguistic origins from ancient times to the present day – the perfect Christmas gift for your favourite word nerd
Worlds of Fear and Wonder
Malcolm Gaskill
How the supernatural unlocks a deeper understanding of the past, from the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches
The Death of Socrates
Emily Wilson
The world-famous translator of Homer investigates the life and afterlife of antiquity's most influential thinker, in an essential re-issued editio…
The Bookshop
Andrew Pettegree
A magisterial history of bookshops and booksellers by the author of The Library and The Book at war
Sparta
Andrew Bayliss
From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of an ancient superpower
Augustine the African
Catherine Conybeare
A groundbreaking reassessment of one of Christianity's foundational thinkers from award-winning classicist Catherine Conybeare
Advance Britannia
Alan Allport
A major – and global – history of how the Second World War was won, by the author of Britain at Bay
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past
To the Sea by Train
Andrew Martin
A lively history of the seaside holiday by train from Britain's 'Bard of the Buffer'
Escaping Babylon
Jesse Bernard
How thirty years of Black music reshaped Britain, from 1989 to the present
From Life Itself
Suzy Hansen
The Pulitzer finalist tells the fascinating story of the rise of an authoritarian Turkey under Erdogan through the microcosm of life in a local Istanb…
Hoax
Madeleine Pelling
The History Hit presenter's spellbinding history unpicks the stories of three incredible eighteenth-century hoaxes
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
No Ordinary Deaths
Molly Conisbee
A vibrant, compelling social history of death, dying, and how our ends shape our lives and societies
Forgotten
Raja Shehadeh
From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise
Collared
Chris Pearson
The story of human and dog companionship in the modern world – from street dogs to pampered pedigrees
We Survived the Night
Julian Brave NoiseCat
An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent