History & Classics
Breaking Bread with the Dead
Alan Jacobs
The past isn't cancelled: it's not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regret…
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid I. Khalidi
This is the story of Palestine told from the inside
Infamy
Jerry Toner
A journey to the dark side of Roman nature – like Horrible Histories for grown-ups
The Persecution of the Templars
Alain Demurger
The definitive account of history's most infamous trial, following the doomed Order from scandal to suppression
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us
Simon Critchley
A provocative and timely exploration into tragedy from the curator of The New York Times philosophy column
The Professor and the Parson
Adam Sisman
How a liar, bigamist and fraudulent priest took in some of the brightest minds of his generation
The Goodness Paradox
Richard Wrangham
Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation special: the nature of our violence.
Hungary
Norman Stone
In this robust overview of Hungarian history, award-winning historian professor Norman Stone tells the story of the nation's struggle for self-det…
Nuking the Moon
Vince Houghton
Agent Zigzag meets The Book of Heroic Failures and The GCHQ Quiz Book
The King's Cathedral
Judith Curthoys
An inside account of the cathedral at the heart of Oxford's grandest college
The Border
Diarmaid Ferriter
The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Age of Conquests
Angelos Chaniotis
Five hundred years of power, politics and culture in the Hellenistic period and the Roman East
Conan Doyle for the Defence
Margalit Fox
Arthur and George meets The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: how the creator of Sherlock Holmes overturned one of the great miscarriages of justice
Living with Buildings
Iain Sinclair
One of Britain's finest writers embarks on a journey to explore the relationship between our health and the buildings that surround us
The Shock Of The Old
David Edgerton
'So the new is old, and the old is new! Marvellous stuff and absolutely spot-on.' – Simon Jenkins
Medieval Bodies
Jack Hartnell
A glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, loved by critics and readers alike
Armageddon and Paranoia
Rodric Braithwaite
How did we end up living in a terrifying reality of potential nuclear annihilation?
The Last Battle
Peter Hart
The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the centenary