A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century ...

'A new understanding of history' Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% 'If you think progress will take us to the promised land, this is a...

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGE An enormous bestseller in Greece,...

'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph'Åsne Seierstad is one of the greatest, most c...

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This explosive national bestseller is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour—and the chaos it unleashed in the ...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegra...

Robben Island lies 9,67km from Cape Town, across the icy, shark-ridden waters of the Atlantic. Windswept and waterless, the 518ha Island has long b...

An epic new global history of humanity, told through the rivers that have shaped civilisation Rivers are the great natural arteries that run throug...

A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine. Putin's Wars is a timely overview...

A woman’s life is different. This is clear when a stranger’s catcall makes her feel targeted in the street. When politicians make off-the-cuff sexi...

'Glittering... the author’s obvious enthusiasm for the subject is matched by impressive erudition' The SpectatorWhen does a bandit become a monarch...

'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-st...

The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren't for the Ninth Legion, Elizabeth I a minor royal without the Spanish Armada, and ...

The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization synthesizes the latest research and information from a range of disciplines to tell the compelling stor...

Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue, moderation and self-discipline, adapting this ancient knowled...

A seven-year-old English girl, washed up on the Wild Coast in about 1736, is adopted by the amaMpondo, grows up to become a woman of surpassing bea...

NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER (USA TODAY)!America’s most sought-after voice in the fight to save female sports shares her unbelievable story and inspir...

On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of C...

A Desire to Return to the Ruins looks at the contentious issues of land reform and restitution in post-apartheid South Africa. It tells the stories...

Although Salvador Dalí’s characteristically provocative behavior and bizarre pictorial language made him an outlier in high society, his body of wo...

After twenty years of armed conflict in Angola and political instability in coup-ridden Sierra Leone going back to 1991, private corporate financia...

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The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new foreword Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, R...

From the Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling Author In On Democracies and Death Cults, bestselling author Douglas Murray argues how no less than the ...

'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, a...

'Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight' – Tracy Borman, bestselling historianBiggest books to look out for in 2024 – The...

This book is dynamite' - Caroline Lucas | 'Fantastic' - Mark Ruffalo We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our educati...

'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCa...

13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new hist...

The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, we...

For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do ...

In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading...