From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
The bestselling (New York Times No. 3) history chronicling half a millennium of Western culture.
History of ideas
The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State: Revised edition
An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State – now fully revised to cover Blair’s first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy.
The Monk and the Philosopher: East meets west in a father-son dialogue
The most groundbreaking meeting of Eastern philosophy and Western culture to date.
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin
‘Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven’t read a better book on Berlin.’ Gordon A. Craig