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Spending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside - and sharing their...

"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman "Has much to offer." The Spectator "Sparks the imagination." BBC...

A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that...

21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST HISTORY...

A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From...

The personal and the political collide in this masterful account of the death of a...

What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES DEBUT NON-FICTION PRIZE 2025...

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POMPEII** 'The best book on...

Journalist Rachel Maddow's runaway #1 bestseller, with over 400,000 copies sold. This is the startling...

A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets...

A marvellously engaging writer' - The Times From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society...

A riveting account of a turbulent period in Chinese history. In 1966, with the words...

Winner of the Orwell Prize 2024- the exhilarating story of the greatest border breach in...

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the...

The definitive history of the Eastern Front in WWI, from the bestselling author of The...

The little boy did not cry or speak. He just stood there and stared at...

'The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings's portrait of...

'Thrilling, meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDS A jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over...

A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future...

A gripping true crime investigation into the murder of the relatives of Albert Einstein, set...

The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages...

"A moving and intimate portrait of two brothers at war." Michael McKernan Under the same...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes the first definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a...

'This book is a triumph.' Jane Caro 'An ambitious project impressively navigated with great storytelling,...

An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death...

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work...