History

Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World...

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical politi...

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly co...

Created specifically for fans of Japanese cool culture, A Geek in Japan is one of the most iconic, hip, and concise cultural guides available. Rein...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. The creatures teeth were buried in the gunwale, and it lif...

'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the...

A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull ...

War brings them together.Will liberation tear them apart?'Wonderful. A heartbreaking story of the power of love and forgiveness' JILL MANSELL'A ten...

A highly illustrated study of the T-62 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold W...

You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story...

Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental mar...

Travel back in time with the latest instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series, in a brand new portable format.The Little Book of History chart...

'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston_________________________...

In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA ...

The very grubby coalface of foreign policy I found the entire book most horribly addictive Independent One of the unexpected responses to reading ...

Joan Didions hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. ...

The epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most important and dangerous leaders.For...

The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp. The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*'As recognizable a writer as...

The perfect introduction to one of the world's best-known classics.Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized cla...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK  Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingl...

Incredibly evocative and compelling. - The Washington PostThe most moving and chilling oral history you will read. - The TimesAstonishing book abou...

The perfect introduction to the world of Japanese myth and legend. This is a smart and succinct guide to the rich tradition of Japanese mytholog...

Crusading fervour gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades ...

A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million pe...

The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz now a major TV series on SkyCilka's Journey is a powerful testament to the triump...

'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at...

''Electrifying.'' Anne Applebaum ''Mesmerising.'' Financial Times ''Seductive and terrifying in equal measure.'' The Times ''Required reading.''...

The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills ...

An indispensable guide to understanding the IsraelPalestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most ori...

A captivating (The Washington Post) true story of courage, resolve, and determination (Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph Whites successful e...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us tog...

  Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influen...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man ...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages th...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but un...

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (17601849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a ...

The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise.'Brilliant and gripping, here is the fu...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN'Richly entertaining and imp...

It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of T...