History Books

Do you think you know who first thought of the theory of evolution? Have you ever wondered who created the oldest university in the world? Is Joan ...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last ...

'Athletes, especially black athletes, must use every resource at their command to right things that are wrong' - Arthur Ashe FROM THE NEW YORK TIME...

Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way t...

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arend...

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. There's a reason Ms. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize' - Craig ...

'She sees, coming up a second time,Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting...

'many men compete in digging and kicking but no one at all in the pursuit of human excellence.'Diogenes the Cynic is best remembered today for havi...

'The pen would smoothly write the things it knewBut when it came to love it split in two,A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate -Love's nature only ...

'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'P...

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-wr...

Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britan...

'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesEighteenth-century Scotland is famed for gene...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'A huge contribution... remarkable' Ant...

'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar o...

'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global cri...

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Mem...

'Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain ... You will not find a better informed history' David Goodhart, Evening Standard'A s...

The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and chil...

70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington ...

'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard C...

Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of o...

The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history,...

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history ...

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this book." - Neil Gaiman Praised throughout the ca...

Platinum Jubilee edition 'Full of gems ... Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown'Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and beaut...

'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary...

'I was completely captivated' Barbara Erskine The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Anne O'Br...

'Historical fiction at its best' Reader review The Tattooist of Auschwitz meets Girl with a Pearl Earring in this gripping, du...

'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would ...

The Times Thrillers of the Year 2020 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore. A new star has arrived in...

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 'A story that...

The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...

'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historica...

'Brilliantly written, compulsively readable and insightful' Pat Barker 'A first-class life and a rollicking read ... Close to a masterpiec...

From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marw...

London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. 'Finlay depicts a seedy, ...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLI...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book on the...

Dinosaur fans will quickly become dinosaur experts with this informative, inventive and entertaining take on a dinosaur book! Do you know all there...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller* 'Extraordinary Insects is a joy' The Times A Sunday Tim...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. ...

Nicola Corick's latest spellbinding historical mystery, The Winter Garden, is available to pre-order now! A secret hidden in the...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times '...

The forgotten story of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. A strong woman who claimed the throne for her family in a time of war... ...