History & Classics
All In It Together
Alwyn Turner
A biting and original history which places culture front and centre to explain how our country went to pieces
An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse
A story of caring and the grief, heartbreak, joy and love that accompany it, from the bestselling author Kate Mosse
Britain at Bay
Alan Allport
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?
Escape from Earth
Fraser MacDonald
Lies, spies, sex-magic and socialism: the secret history of the first American rocket in space
Rummage
Emily Cockayne
An original exploration of all the ordinary, extraordinary and totally mad things we've thrown out and redeemed through the ages
The Confidence Men
Margalit Fox
The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
Dancing on Ropes
Anna Aslanyan
Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events
The Greywacke
Nick Davidson
The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet
The Gravediggers
Hauke Friederichs
A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frighteni…
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
Julia Laite
An immersive historical account of a fascinating and important untold story
The Origin of Empire
David Potter
Capturing the pivotal moment when Rome transformed from a republic to a world empire, spanning over three hundred action-packed years
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen
Linda Colley
Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world – through the advance of written constitutions
Victory in the Kitchen
Annie Gray
The story of the twentieth century through one woman's life and the food she cooked for our most famous Prime Minister, Winston Churchill
A Scheme of Heaven
Alexander Boxer
Our future really was written in the stars, but not in the way we guessed
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Philip Coggan
A panoramic history of trade, industry and economic thought, from prehistoric times to the present.
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi
In this classic study of European colonialism, Albert Memmi examines the psychological effects of colonial ideology and system on both the colonizer a…