Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers, Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria’s political evolution, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in...Paperback$2900Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read Garrett Graff's The Devil Reached Toward the Sky. Even if you don't read this lengthy masterpiece, you should keep it in your library to demonstrate that you are curious and literate. It's everything, and more, about the atom bomb, the Manhattan Project,...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% offThe Cleopatras
A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE The Cleopatras: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp...Paperback$2400Usually:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Anzac Guerrillas
When the Germans took thousands of Allied prisoners during the catastrophic Greek campaign of 1941, a handful of Australian soldiers escaped from prison trains in occupied Yugoslavia. What awaited them was not passage home, but a brutal underground war where the fate of a nation was at stake. Told through the eyes of two of the Australian escapees – mineworker...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World
Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm Telegraph Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply researched and thoughtful Irish Independent Fans of Phillips's earlier books Humans and Truth will be pleased that the ex-BuzzFeed editor is on form, not letting the grimness of his subject...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Lost Baker of Vienna
Papa whispered to Chana, 'If we get separated, if something happens to me, look after Mama and Aron. And one last thing—' He smoothed an affectionate hand over her hair. 'Remember everything I've taught you, and all your gifts. Promise me this.' 1946. Having survived a concentration camp, Chana Rosenzweig arrives in Vienna seeking not only protection for her and...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Craft
'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street Journal THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020 'This book shows that, despite rumours of demon dwarfs, piano-playing crocodiles and world domination, the real story of the Freemasons is one of male eccentricity.' The Craft is a superb book that often reads like an adventure novel. It's informative, fascinating and often very funny....Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
At Home in Japan
What would it be like to move to Japan, leaving everyone you know behind, to become part of a traditional Japanese household? At Home in Japan tells an extraordinary true story of a foreign woman who goes through an amazing transformation, moving from a suburban lifestyle in California to a new life in Japan. She dedicates 30 years of her...Hardback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Pigeon Tunnel
The extraordinary memoir from one of the world's greatest living novelists, now in the giftable hardback series. The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers'—the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn...Hardback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis
The passionate, gripping true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family – their beloved art collection – and to restore their legacy. Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. That's almost all he knew about them – his father rarely spoke of their family history or...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Makers of Rome
An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman Republic. These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities, and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The History of Alexander
A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time—Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia, and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
19% offQueens of the Crusades
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England includes the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book. Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel - Tracy Borman Crusading...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Queens of the Age of Chivalry
The third volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England. Queens of the Age of Chivalry is the third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England. 'Weir's history books are as gripping as novels' - The Times Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet, as Alison Weir shows in...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Traitor of Arnhem
NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025. 'Sensational' Daily Express 'A bombshell book' Daily Mail 'Mr. Verkaik relates the complex stories of Lindemans and Blunt with the economy and verve of a spy novelist' The Wall Street Journal 'Original, thought-provoking and exceedingly well written.' - Robert Kershaw, author of It Never...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Exterminate/Regenerate
'Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old. Full of surprising and piercing insights . . . The first thing I've come across that absolutely nails the extraordinary nature of the cultural phenomenon that is Doctor Who' JEREMY DYSON On screen, Doctor Who is a story of monsters, imagination and mind-expanding adventure. But...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Merlin
The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito, and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of artistry and problem-solving that resulted in a war-winning design. Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Africonomics
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It’s A Continent We need to think differently about African economics. For centuries, Westerners have tried to ‘fix’ African economies. From the abolition of slavery onwards,...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Einstein Vendetta
A gripping true crime investigation into the murder of the relatives of Albert Einstein, set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Florence during WWII. Italy, August 1944. A unit of German soldiers arrives at a villa near Florence. Villa Il Focardo is home to Robert Einstein, cousin to the most famous scientist in the world, Albert Einstein - a prominent enemy...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Buried City
'The best book on Pompeii I've ever read' STEPHEN FRY This is Pompeii, as you've never seen it before. In this revelatory history, Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the new secrets of Pompeii. Over the last few years, a vast stretch of the city has been excavated for the first time. Now, drawing on these astonishing discoveries, The Buried City reveals the...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Operation Pimento
On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE 'Special Duties' airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Pimento, but they were shot down near Annecy in southeast France. Only Frank survived. Though seriously injured, Frank felt it was his duty to get back...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES '21 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS SPRING' PICK A TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE CONVERSATION'S 5 BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form....Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Introducing Maori Culture
Introducing Maori Culture by Don Stafford provides a comprehensive exploration of the rich history and culture of the Maori people. This book delves into key questions such as: When was Aotearoa discovered? How was Maori society organised in pre-European times? What is traditional Maori art? How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today? From the great Polynesian migration to...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Feminisms
An authoritative and original history of global feminism from an award-winning historian. How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Persepolis
Another astonishing work of graphic non-fiction, the story of a girl growing up in Iran during the Revolution. Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of...Hardback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Shortest History of the World
A fascinating journey through life, the universe and everything. How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? The Shortest History of the World follows the continuum of historical change in the cosmos—from the Big Bang, through the evolution of life,...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Making of Australia
The Making of Australia is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and accessible. In his latest book, David...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Sleeps Standing
A little book containing so much — a novella, history, eyewitness reports, Māori translation, verse, and images. Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Māori men, women, and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Resistance
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe. Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe, the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries, such as Denmark, were within tight limits allowed to run themselves. Others, such as France, were constrained not only by military occupation but by open collaboration. In a historical moment when Nazi victory seemed...Paperback$4400Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Pakeha Maori: The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans Who Lived as
This book describes one of the most extraordinary and fascinating stories in New Zealand history. In the early part of the last century, several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Mamon, John Rutherford, Charlotte Badger and many others—this is their largely untold story. They were regarded as unsavoury renegades by the European settlers, but amongst...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Bismarck's War
The thrilling history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, that would shape the great wars to come. Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. A new German Empire was...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The LGBTQ + History Book
A bold, accessible, and truly global overview of LGBTQ+ history, from the ancient world to the present day. Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world—their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions. Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse,...Hardback$4400Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Europe
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic activity. Yet even at this early stage, Europe was exerting...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Eichmann Trial
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012) Part of the Jewish Encounter series The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Islamic Empires
An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomised it. Islamic civilisation was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and swathes of the Indian subcontinent. For centuries, the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Auschwitz
A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing ground. At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is...Paperback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Penguin History of the World
This new edition of The Penguin History of the World is an opportunity to celebrate a book that is both a richly rewarding narrative and a permanent work of reference. The Penguin History of the World tells the entire story of human endeavour in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain in a single book; beautifully written, authoritative and...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Civil War
The Civil War is Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome. A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War offers a tense and gripping depiction of his conflict with Pompey, which spanned the entire Roman...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
David Kilcullen is the world's foremost expert on this way of war, and in The Accidental Guerrilla, the senior counterinsurgency advisor to the Pentagon and architect of 'the Surge', surveys war as it is actually fought in the contemporary world. Colouring his account with gripping battlefield experiences that range from the jungles and highlands of South and Southeast Asia to...Paperback$4400Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Seashaken Houses
The enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, now in paperback. Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more utilitarian than that. Today we still depend upon their guiding...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Revolutionary Spring
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history. There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris, huge crowds gathered, sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had held sway since the...Paperback$4400Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
On Sparta
A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society. On Sparta by Plutarch provides vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs, offering a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
In the Garden of Beasts
In 1933, a year that would prove to be a turning point in history, William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. He brings his family with him to Berlin, where they experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance, and—ultimately—horror. The ambassador's daughter is at first entranced by the pomp and parties, and by the young men with...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Chronicles of the Crusades
A new edition of these two French accounts written by soldiers who took part in the Crusades. The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint Louis by John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts of going to war in the service of God. In the first years of the thirteenth century, Villehardouin served as an envoy...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Short History of the World
Moving from the Modern Classics into the successful Wells series in the Penguin Classics. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Annals
Annals is presented in a compelling new translation by Cynthia Damon. Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity, Tacitus describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero,...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods—providing a merciless critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
A History of My Times
A History of My Times is a fascinating historical account of Greece at a point of crisis. Xenophon's history recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a captivating chronicle of the conflicts that ultimately led...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Triumph and Tragedy
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for...Paperback$4200Elsewhere:$4600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Persian Expedition
Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad. In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army—the Ten Thousand—to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne....Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The First Day on the Somme
The First Day on the Somme was the blackest day of slaughter in the history of the British Army. This is a powerful account of the experiences of soldiers who faced it. On 1 July 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Dig Tree
"Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he wrote, 'I see little chance for any of us'. In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$1799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Conquest of New Spain
The defeat of the Aztecs by Hernan Cortes and his small band of adventurers is one of the most startling military feats in history. Fifty years after the event, Bernal Diaz (c. 1498-1580), who served under Cortes, wrote this account of the march from the coast, Montezuma's death, the massacre of the Spaniards, and the eventual capture of the capital...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Arabs
The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonisation to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Our Enemies Will Vanish
The compelling account from the front lines of the war in Ukraine... Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Dead Wake
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster. On 1 May, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record...Paperback$4400Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Great and Terrible King
The first popular biography of Edward I in a generation by a major new historian. This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar to millions as ‘Longshanks’, conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace (Braveheart). Edward was born to rule England but believed that it was his right...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology
New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about. 'How great, then, must be the incomprehensible space all the way to the furthest fixed stars? How wide and immense must be the depth of that fantastical sphere?' In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Warning to the West
Solzhenitsyn's polemical speeches serve as a primer for understanding the moral and political vision of the Nobel Prize winner. 'Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger... to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world? I was...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Gulag Archipelago
A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union, now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story of its publication. The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated. — Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph With a new introduction by Natalia Solzhenitsyn. A vast canvas of camps, prisons,...Hardback$6300Elsewhere:$6999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Great Crash 1929
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that led to the great crash of 1929. No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J.K. Galbraith examines the...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Unknown Warrior
The unprecedented scale and destruction of the First World War meant that hundreds of thousands of soldiers perished without being properly identified in death. Over 300,000 names were left without bodies to match; bodies, or fragments of bodies, were left without names. Three hundred thousand families waiting in vain to know what happened to their loved ones. In response to...Paperback$3800Elsewhere:$4299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Book
In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Japan's War
A new perspective on Japan during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material. Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed thirty-five million people, there remains deeply-felt bitterness and anger about the way the Asia-Pacific War was fought, especially by the Japanese. The war in the East stretched from Hawaii to India - with...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Babi Yar
Babi Yar is a Ukrainian classic - the gripping account of Kyiv during the Second World War as told by a young boy who witnessed it all. This gripping story captures the experience of Kyiv during the Second World War through the eyes of a young boy who saw it all. 'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' - Daily Mail "So here...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
State of Origin 45 Years
The book covers 45 rich years of State of Origin football, reflecting the triumphs, the pain, the controversies, and the incidents that shape rugby league’s greatest spectacle. Written by league expert Liam Hauser, State of Origin: 45 Years is a fascinating celebration of rugby league and the legendary State of Origin series, which has been one of the most widely...Hardback$4800Elsewhere:$5299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Lone Survivor
In June 2005, four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold, surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs was alive. This is the story...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Spy Sinker
A new narrator provides some long-awaited answers to the Bernard Samson mystery in the final novel of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy. Of all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona. Dedicated agent of the Service and a woman of secrets, she will risk everything to play the long game. As the truth about...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Spy Line
The second book of the Hook, Line and Sinker series finds Bernard Samson on the run through Berlin, Vienna and Prague. Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Spy Hook
Spy Hook introduces us to Bernard Samson, a spy forced on the run from his own government in this nail-biting first instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker series. Millions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department has sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of something far deeper...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Merchant of Prato
Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In 1870, an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. Francesco di...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class is the revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals, reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic to mark the 50th anniversary of its publication. This brilliant account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the working class took part...Paperback$5400Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Conversations With Stalin
Written by a Communist insider, Conversations With Stalin is a candid portrait of one of the most dangerous men in history. This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book details three meetings held with Stalin during and after the Second World War. Djilas brilliantly describes the dictator in his lair—cunning, cruel, and enormously talented. Few books give as clear a sense of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Christ Stopped at Eboli
“We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.” Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state. It was a land hedged in by custom and sorrow, devoid of comfort or solace, where the peasants lived with an eternal patience amidst...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Charity
The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last case. Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, Faith, Hope and Charity. Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
An Autobiography
First published in two volumes in 1927 and 1929, with a second edition in 1940, this is Gandhi's account of his early spiritual progress towards truth and the circumstances of his life that led him to a practical application of the principles of conduct for which he was revered.Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRY Longlisted for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases for the reaches of human imagination. Now only the great pyramid remains fully standing, yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonders...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Keir Starmer
The bestselling biography of the new British Prime Minister A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year ‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ‘This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
America, América
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes the first definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both continents. The story of the United States' unique sense of itself was forged facing south - no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north....Paperback$3999Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Down and Out in Paris and London
"You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them." George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor. Sleeping...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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