John Darwin The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the...

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown More than half a century after the large-scale migration of visible communities to the United Kingdom, a movement which brought not only the excitement of new foods and...

Dominic Sandbrook Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture...

Jonathan Sumption This text is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars...

Yanis Varoufakis The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe’s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece,...

Norman Davies This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to...

Alwyn W Turner "Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an...

Peter Ackroyd In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling retelling of England's history, painting a vivid portrait of the Stuart kings, from the accession of James I to the ignominious...

Serhii Plokhy 'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (David Blair Sunday Telegraph)Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the...

Roderick Beaton We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences,...

Michelle Gallen A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside...

John Mole Intoxicated with dreams of a Greek paradise, John Mole inflicts upon his family a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity, no roof, no floor,...