History and Archaeology
Eighteen
Strange Relations
Odyssey
Pre-order the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?
Sometimes the hardest journey is the way back home . . .
Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks - after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband an
When the Clock Broke
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK
A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era
'When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump's ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly'
The Golden Road
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highligh
The Piano Player of Budapest
Party of One
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having mask
Private Revolutions
A Financial Times, New York Times and Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year
'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE
'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES
'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Inc
The Rest is History Returns
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream
'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE TIMES
'Engaging and thoroughly reader-friendly' TELEGRAPH
'Wonderfully absorbing and stimulating' SARAH B
Moneta
* A Financial Times Book of the Year * A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read *
HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
'Fantastic ... expert storytelling' CONN IGGULDEN
'Excellent' SUNDAY TIMES
'Riveting and utterly original' MAIL ON SUNDAY
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HOW TO KILL A WITCH
The Damascus Events
'A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres-much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East' - Simon Sebag Montefiore
'A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting' - Peter Frankopan
This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the
Hubris
Goliath's Curse
A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twentieth-first century and beyond - based on the latest research and a database of more than 440 societal lifespans over the last 5,000 years.
Why do civilisations collapse?
For the first 200,000 years of human history, hunter-gather
Paris '44
** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **
'Extraordinary' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES * 'An epic thriller . . . droll, moving, with a cinematic eye and not a boring line in it' OBSERVER * 'Fascinating . . . gripping' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * 'Excellent . . . a fresh, unexpected take on the liberation of Paris' JULIAN JACKSON, author of
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained
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