Slavery and abolition of slavery

The Crown’s Silence

A ground-breaking and essential work of history – the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family’s connection with the transatlantic slave trade

Searching for My Slave Roots

Malik Al Nasir was born in Liverpool to mixed parentage, with a white mother and a black father. Bemused by childhood memories of racist shouts for him to ‘go back to where you came from’ – he came from Liverpool after all – he began to look into his father’s ancestry.

The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this ‘riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult’ (Los Angeles Times).

God’s Ghostwriters

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan

‘A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph’ Irish Independent

‘[A] massive achievement’ Spectator

‘Refreshingly readable’ Guardian

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Abducted from Africa, sold in America.

“A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”- Daily Telegraph

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.

Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle: Film tie-in edition

The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England.

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