INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian ...

Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Val...

WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO Conversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation...

Chris Schoeman neem nog Suid-Afrikaanse rampe oor die eeu heen opnuut onder die loep, maar sluit dié keer ’n heel paar minder bekende voorvalle in ...

For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge...

An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from t...

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and ...

New York Times 10 Best Book of 2020 Sunday Times best book for Autumn 2020 Guardian critics' pick for Autumn 2020 Wall Street Journal notable book ...

'An extraordinary book' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer 'Essential reading' Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming and a...

**The instant Sunday Times bestseller****A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR**Battling an overfilled inbox?Your ever-lengthen...

Tonele en rolspelers uit die Anglo-Boereoorlog kry nuwe lewe in hierdie unieke versameling foto’s wat lewensgetrou ingekleur is. Dit bring vars per...

Zach de Beer, former leader of the PFP (1988-1989) and the DP (1989-1994) is one of the forgotten men of South African history. During the darkest ...

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...

Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charle...

From palace-based societies in Minoan Crete to the Germanic invasion of Rome, this book tells the story of these classical civilizations, covering ...

This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the me...

A clear, concise and detailed historical analysis of the eclectic and beautiful visual and material culture of paganism. The book begins with an i...

The thing that looms largest in South Africa’s future is South Africa’s past – most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...

For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but for thousands of years before that, Britain had bee...

Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search...

The world's oldest and greatest ultra-marathon, the Comrades Marathon is a South African institution that is internationally-recognised for the bod...

A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is ...

For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been des...

The Last Night on the Titanic demystifies life in all three classes aboard the world’s most beloved ocean liner. Learn why the Titanic still captur...

From 1913 to 1920, the Molteno-Murray family published a private journal called "Chronicle of the Family". It appeared three times a year, providin...

Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended i...

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with it...

Die verhaal van die 1820-Setlaars – Britse emigrante na die onstuimige grens van ‘n afgelee kolonie in die 19de-eeuse Suider-Afrika. Hulle invloed ...

Though it has been some six centuries since explorer Zheng He visited Africa, scholar Li Xinfeng finds connections between Zheng's voyages and Chin...

What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before th...

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its ...

'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC History From Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's firs...

This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Wester...

Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map ...

The definitive book on this important battle of the Wars of the Roses For many years the first battle of St Albans was regarded as a ‘short scuffle...

Broadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendan...

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one...

Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to kee...

This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A sin...

Starting from the ocean and from the forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new history of the making of our world. After re...

The essential guide that allows both sides to be heard Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok presents the Israeli perspective, while Dr Dawoud El-Alami ...