History books

In Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth, Edwina S. Campbell chronicles Ulysses S. Grant's two-year world tour--the first...  Read More >>

The 2024 Elizabeth Longford prizewinning biography of the founder of Impressionism Based on thousands of never-before...  Read More >>

Nature editor and Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species and our probable extinction,...  Read More >>

The thrilling true story behind the Allies’ mission to take back Venice from the Germans – and save its artistic...  Read More >>

The eminent classicist and historian delves into Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to tell for the first time the previously...  Read More >>

Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us...  Read More >>

The ""engaging"" (New Yorker), New York Times best-selling story of how coyotes took over North America-and are...  Read More >>

Invisible Women meets Doughnut Economics- An international bestseller from an exciting new voice in the feminist...  Read More >>

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A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia In the closing months of the Second...  Read More >>

Join Alistair Moffat in this concise and colourful account of Edinburgh, one of the UK's top tourist destinations...  Read More >>

Set against the backdrop of the Liverpool music scene of the 1980s and beyond, this is a story about the search...  Read More >>

What would the women of the world do with their lives if they had more time? The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary...  Read More >>

Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction- an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy...  Read More >>

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A razor-sharp, utterly immersive political travelogue that reveals one of the world’s most enigmatic regions  Read More >>

A prescient, thoughtful and chilling examination of the current state of the world If there are lessons from history,...  Read More >>

Charts world history from the dawn of civilisation to the modern culture we live in today. From the origins of homo-sapiens...  Read More >>

A chronological account of twenty-one women who made French history, from the fifth to the twenty-first century....  Read More >>

Gold, greed, empire – the hidden history of Britain’s stolen West African treasure  Read More >>

A landmark exploration of women-led communities worldwide and what they can teach us about new ways to live, think...  Read More >>

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A compelling portrait of the first Tudor monarch Henry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile...  Read More >>

A sweeping, riveting history of the Venetian ghetto, the world’s first Jewish ghetto; for readers of Simon Schama...  Read More >>

A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by...  Read More >>