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...