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"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED...

Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America A Penguin Classic Chilling...

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led...

Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris...

A uniquely illustrated guide to the Second World War with more than 100 detailed maps...

Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion...

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the...

With the Empire gone, Brexit looming and the break-up of the United Kingdom itself a...

China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 'A brilliantly original book' Financial Times 'One of the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'Hypnotic, shocking and...

A riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity in that...

There is a little Neanderthal in all of us. Although they have been extinct for...

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature,...

'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute...

For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist...

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world...

The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in...

Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which...

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history...

'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent...

A new edition of the definitive history of revolutionary Iran, essential for understanding the country...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year...

'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - FROM THE 2025 BBC REITH LECTURER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New...

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE...

The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two...

This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the...