History & Classics
Embers of the Hands
Eleanor Barraclough
An original and intimate history of the Viking Age, told through the everyday objects that defined the lives of ordinary people
The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer
A grand, sweeping history of the evolution of morality across the entire existence of humankind
Immaculate Forms
Helen King
Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day
The Revelation of Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter
A masterful history of a country transformed over 25 years, from Ireland's most distinguished historian
On The Roof
Tom Allan
A study of an ancient craft, landscape and community from an outstanding new voice
Tracks on the Ocean
Sara Caputo
A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world
The Green Ages
Annette Kehnel
A fascinating look at the medieval precedents for modern sustainable living
The History of Ideas
David Runciman
What is the history of ideas – and how has it shaped our world today?
At the Edge of Empire
Edward Wong
The essential history of modern China, told through the story of one family
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
Raja Shehadeh
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide.
Impossible City
Simon Kuper
An unsparing memoir of the city in the twenty-first century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption
Writing on the Wall
Madeleine Pelling
Hear the voices of the eighteenth century: an eye-opening new history of Britain's most tumultuous period, told through its graffiti
Interwar
Gavin Stamp
An authoritative survey of British buildings between the wars by the late Gavin Stamp – one of Britain's best-known architecture critics
The Language Puzzle
Steven Mithen
A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today
Little Englanders
Alwyn Turner
An authoritative and entertaining history of the Edwardian age, told through its politics and popular culture
Exhausted
Anna Katharina Schaffner
A burnout coach's transformative insights on exhaustion, from ancient wisdom to modern life
The House Divided
Barnaby Rogerson
A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East
The Notebook
Roland Allen
Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the wo…