The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may...
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past....
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup...
The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold. Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for...
Graham Greene saw the Castros rise, Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana,...
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were...
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From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India, from west to east and back again, this book follows the processes of...
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How...
'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal KeaneThe first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy...
Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired...
'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant...
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time. On...
'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A...
Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. This book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including...
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy......
Connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of...
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction'At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book' The...
‘A bold and imaginative page-turner that challenges ideas about the world of antiquity.’ Peter Frankopan (The Silk Roads)‘This vivid and engaging book brings to life...
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