History & Classics
How to be a Renaissance Woman
Jill Burke
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Mary Beard
An unmissable tour through art and time with the most renowned classicist of today, Mary Beard
Emperor of Rome
Mary Beard
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)
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.
A Terribly Serious Adventure
Nikhil Krishnan
An absorbing group biography of the Oxford thinkers who transformed philosophical thought in twentieth-century Britain
Love in a Time of Hate
Florian Illies
The love lives of famous Europeans, as war approaches – from the bestselling author of 1913
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx
Jerry Toner
The first ever travel guide to the Roman Empire.
All That She Carried
Tiya Miles
All That She Carried stands as an astonishing account of love, resilience and survival, one that helps to plug that archival abyss
The Museum of Other People
Adam Kuper
A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance – and future – of anthropology museums, from a global expert
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…
The Book of Phobias and Manias
Kate Summerscale
A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Astonish Me!
Dominic Dromgoole
A tour through the most sensational first nights across the arts, by the long-term Globe Theatre artistic director
A People's Church
Jeremy Morris
A richly detailed history of the Church of England from a top academic and historian who is also a 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