A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day &,nbsp, Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in...
'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new...
The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages...
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life...
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific&,nbsp,Spices...
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life--updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news...
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called...
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie...
The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the...
'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Fascinating . . .Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement...
A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of...
",How India's youth are trading fatalism and karma for free will and higher expectations, by a former New York Times New Delhi bureau chief who...
WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026The Sunday Times BestsellerShortlisted for the Nero Book AwardsShortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje PrizeShortlisted for the RSL Christopher...
The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade...
'Vivid and compelling' - The Telegraph'A propulsive, gorgeously reported account of the forces that re-shaped New York in the late 1980s, The Gods of New...
If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was...
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. This book tells...
Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories...
The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West. China is the oldest...
*Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2022*'A wonderful book.'Peter Frankopan'A masterpiece'Gregory Nagy, Harvard University'Remarkable'Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules-For NowThe way we...
