History & Classics

Love in a Time of Hate
Florian Illies
The love lives of famous Europeans, as war approaches – from the bestselling author of 1913

All That She Carried
Tiya Miles
A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a deeply layered and insightful…

A Terribly Serious Adventure
Nikhil Krishnan
An absorbing group biography of the Oxford thinkers who transformed philosophical thought in twentieth-century Britain

A People's Church
Jeremy Morris
A richly detailed history of the Church of England from a top historian who is also an Anglican priest

Brainwashed
Daniel Pick
A brilliant and mind-bending exploration of brainwashing and thought control

Geography Is Destiny
Ian Morris
The story of Britain, from its first moments as an island to its possible future

Russia
Rodric Braithwaite
A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it today

The Museum of Other People
Adam Kuper
A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance – and future – of anthropology museums, from a global expert

Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
Matthew Teller
A thoroughly original exploration of Jerusalem, told through the voices of its contemporary residents

One Hundred Saturdays
Michael Frank
From the sun-soaked, vibrant Juderia of Rhodes to the horrors of the Nazi camps, Stella Levi's life – told to the author over a series of Saturda…

Magritte
Alex Danchev
The first major biography for our time, from the celebrated biographer of Cézanne

New Rome
Paul Stephenson
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East

Blood on the River
Marjoleine Kars
A breathtakingly original history of the slave rebellion that almost changed the face of the Americas

Fabric
Victoria Finlay
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth – how we make it, use it and what it means to us