Historiography
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times
‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times
The Wolf Hall Picture Book
A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel’s bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy, now a major TV series
An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist.
Poland: A history
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians
A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)
‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman
England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square
‘An erudite, extremely entertaining work’ Jan Morris, IndependentIn the style of Longitude and Fermat’s Last Theorem, acclaimed novelist Maureen Duffy has written a page-turning narrative history of the making of the myth of the English.
History of the 20th Century
From Britain’s ‘greatest living factual historian’ (Paul Johnson, Evening Standard), his magisterial global history of the twentieth century.
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.
India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization
Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book.
The I.R.A.: Revised edition
An updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the IRA, now including behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process.