Books, History

The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved writers, now in a stunning celebratory hardback edition with a new introduction and epilogue'A must for any Austenite.' - RED magazineWhere better to celebrate one of Britain's most beloved novelists than the very rooms from...

THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday'Once embarked upon the journey of the book, one is loath, sometimes unable to turn back' Sunday Times'A book that makes...

‘Remarkable. Deeply personal, moving and funny. Johnny is not your typical person or politician’ – Alastair Campbell‘An extraordinary book by an extraordinary person’ – Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge and co-host of The Rest Is PoliticsBrutally honest, insightful and darkly funny,...

This book tells the history of England from the point of view of the people who lived in Mearsdon, the house in Moretonhampstead on the edge of Dartmoor, where the historian Ian Mortimer now lives. The house is documented from the thirteenth century but...

This ground-breaking history reveals for the first time the true significance of the trade in enslaved Africans in Britain’s development as a modern nation - based on a comprehensive, landmark investigation.‘Essential, forensic analysis from a global authority’ SATHNAM SANGHERA*AS FEATURED IN BBC DOCUMENTARY FINDING...

What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian'An immense contribution... In tracing the evolving meaning of ‘antisemitism,’ [Mazower] demonstrates persuasively how we might turn it from a weapon back into a word... Rigorous and...

The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Children of Ash and Elm and award-winning expert on the Vikings brings us even closer to their worldWho do we think of when we think about the Vikings? Most of us are familiar with the seafaring marauders...

'Redwood might be his best yet' John Grisham, author of A Time to KillFrom the multi-million copy bestselling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear warThe year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in...

'A history that somehow manages to be at once succinct and sweeping: essential reading for anyone interested in this most fascinating of countries' - Tom Holland'The perfect introduction to [Japan's] intriguing society is Christopher Harding’s lively new A Short History of Japan... The book...

A Times Best Book of the Year 2025A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring'It takes a confident historian to write a short book… the story is distilled to its powerful essence; he knows precisely what’s important… This small book...

Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.This is the extraordinary story of Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s greatest inspiration and rival.In brutally repressive Elizabethan London, artists are frightened; foreigners are suspect; crowds revel in animal fights and public executions. Into this crude world comes an...

A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's historyA Times Best Book of the Year 2025A History Extra History Book of the Year 2025'This is a marvellous idea, quite brilliantly realised. Catherine Clarke takes 25 poems [...] and uses them as windows...

'It would be hard to think of a better biographer for this uniquely contradictory intellectual…. piercingly intelligent… Lee’s biography … has joie de vivre, high humour and energetic compassion for the multiplying complexities of the human mind' The ObserverThe groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning...

‘Be like the headland on which the waves continually break. It stands firm and about it the boiling waters sink to sleep.’ —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.3 Stoicism is a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in ancient Athens in the 3rd century...

‘I suspect that in ten years’ time, we’ll look back at the study of slavery and try to remember what it was like before we’d heard of the Sandbach Tinne dynasty. That we’ll struggle to imagine how we tried to understand Britain’s involvement in...

Savings Pre-order Price Guarantee. TermsBorn in Alexandria in 1944 to Jewish parents from Germany and Austria, Margaret arrived in England aged four – stateless, foreign, and an outsider. Those origins shaped everything. Her grandmother was murdered by the Nazis. Her grandfather was greeted as...

Within a century, the Cromwell family produced two of the most powerful, impactful and controversial commoners in British history. Thomas served the Tudors, helping to forge Henry VIII’s autocratic state and the Church of England; Oliver led a revolution that executed a king, abolished...

A BBC History Magazine and Aspects of History Book of the Year 2025'Terrific – full of drama … it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War' PATRICK BISHOPFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF THE...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE*A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt BooksA dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of...

A Times Book of the Year'A superb work of history' JAMES HOLLAND'A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history' DAN SNOWA landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.Winston Churchill famously remarked...

The epic story of the alliance forged between Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Five Nations of the Iroquois as English forces joined with the Iroquois against the French and their Indigenous allies.Empire and Frontier presents a powerful episode of early American history, revealing the...

In 1872, Fyodor Dostoevsky published a novel titled Demons, about a catastrophe that ensues from the nihilism that became prevalent in Russia in the 1860s.A group of young men incite chaos as they try to stage a revolution. In Dostoevsky’s portrayal, they seem possessed...

'There are few bits of history more mythologised, sensitive and political than Sparta, but luckily we have Bayliss' Dan Snow, creator of History HitSparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity....

Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi (1703–1762) was a highly renowned and influential scholar of Islam who produced foundational works on the Qur’an, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Sufism, philosophy, and politics. He sought to reconcile seemingly competing strands of Muslim intellectual thought and practice, pursuing a cosmopolitan...

31 Inventions That Built Our World: The Making of Modern Life by Jonn Elledge explores the inventions and ideas that have shaped human civilisation over more than 10,000 years. The book looks at the everyday technologies and infrastructure we often take for granted—from elevators...

یہ کتاب سلمان فاروقی کی سات دہائیوں پر محیط یادداشتوں پر مبنی ہے، جس میں پاکستان کی سیاسی اور سرکاری تاریخ کے اہم واقعات، ذاتی مشاہدات اور اقتدار کے ایوانوں میں گزارے گئے تجربات شامل ہیں۔ کتاب قائداعظم کو خراجِ عقیدت پیش کرنے کے...

Revolutionaries on Trial is a groundbreaking new study of the infamous Lahore Conspiracy Case and its principal martyrs-Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru who belonged to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA). The trial was named after the city of Lahore where it was booked...

Punjab Di Vel is not only a history of Punjab. It is a history of the region seen through Punjab: through its rivers and trade routes, its movements and ruptures, its languages, resistances, exchanges, and forms of living together. Grounded in rigorous research and...

The first complete English translation of the classic late Ming Chinese treatise on good taste‘Be ancient rather than fashionable, be simple rather than merely clever, be restrained rather than vulgarly ostentatious’Written in the seventeenth century by Chinese scholar Wen Zhenheng, Treatise on Superfluous Things...

ڈاکٹر نجیبہ عارف کے اس منظوم ترجمے کے کئی امتیازات ہیں۔ مجھے پہلے کے چند تراجم کے مقابلے میں یہ سعیِ جمیل متن کے زیادہ قریب بھی لگی اور زیادہ سلیس و رواں بھی۔ لکھنے کو تو یہ بات ایک مختصر سے جملے میں...

یہ کتاب اس سوال کا جواب تلاش کرتی ہے کہ مختلف تہذیبیں کس طرح وجود میں آئیں، معاشرے کیسے ترقی کرتے گئے، طاقت کے مراکز کیسے قائم ہوئے اور انسانی تاریخ کے مختلف ادوار نے آج کی دنیا کو کس طرح تشکیل دیا

Talban K Saey Men طالبان کے سائے میںافغانستان دنیا کے لیے ہمیشہ ایک پہیلی کی مانند رہا ہے، پہیلی بھی سادہ نہیں بلکہ تہہ در تہہ الجھی ہوئی۔ یہ پیچیدہ کہانی انہیں بھی آج تک پوری طرح سمجھ نہیں آئی جو برس ہا برس...

Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the...

Destroyer of Worlds tells the story of the development of nuclear science and the birth of the atomic age, beginning with Henry Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity in 1896. Frank Close traces the work of major scientists including Ernest Rutherford, Enrico Fermi, Otto Hahn, Lise...

10 Mistakes That Changed History by Paul Coulter is an entertaining and humorous exploration of the historical mistakes, accidents, poor decisions and failures that had enormous consequences. From Cleopatra to the sinking of the Titanic, Coulter examines how seemingly human errors—including reckless leadership, misguided...

An acclaimed collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinkingWho owns language? In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngugi wa Thiong’o presents a series of essays that build on his vast wealth of work on language...

Sharp, authoritative essays on the dark realities of Empire and the true historian’s importance for democracy, amid history’s appropriation by apologists, racists and culture warriors.The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can pinpoint it,...

How much technology have you taken for granted today?It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes our world.The...

Ameer Hajjaj bin Yousaf By Muhammad Fahad Haris 

Marwan bin hakam By Pro. Qazi Muhammad Tahir Ali

PEELING BACK THE MYTHS OBSCURING FRANCE’S ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR AUTHORAlbert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti-colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camus’s three major novels...

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is a collection of essays by acclaimed classicist and translator Emily Wilson, exploring how ancient literature continues to influence and speak to the modern world.Wilson examines what happens when ancient texts are translated for new audiences, asking what translators gain,...

Islam and Capitalism is a learned, engaged rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called 'Islam,' typically characterised as instinctively hostile to...

Their fortunes – blood and sugar.'This is a book you need to read.' Lucy WorsleyGeorgian heiresses are inescapable in British culture. They flutter through Jane Austen’s novels and countless period dramas. Their portraits – painted by Gainsborough, Zoffany, Reynolds – crowd our museums while...

‘A triumph. Frankly is the most insightful and stylishly open memoir by a politician since Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father’ – Andrew O’Hagan'Nicola Sturgeon tells her remarkable story with great skill and unflinching honesty' – Alan JohnsonThe enduring popularity of Nicola Sturgeon, the...

Hidden Creatures takes readers into the fascinating, strange and often misunderstood world of parasites—organisms that live by interacting with and sometimes exploiting other living creatures.Award-winning Kenyan entomologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Dino Martins explores creatures ranging from tapeworms and tsetse flies to leeches and...

‘Extraordinary, original, gripping, and painfully relevant to our times’ Philippe Sands, author of 38 Londres Street'This is a fascinating and totally unexpected account of one of the darkest periods of the Second World War'  Antony Beevor----------Warsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being...

'A truly original take on migration, family and faith' NOREEN MASUDAs a young Muslim woman, Alycia Pirmohamed grew up with her body as racialised and her faith as seemingly dangerous. Her affinity to the natural world - the mountains, elk and pines of her...

Wild Knowing: Quiet Belonging in the Hebrides by Fiona Ross is a warm memoir about leaving city life behind and finding a new sense of home through farming, nature and Highland cattle. Fiona Ross, originally from Glasgow, discovers her family’s connection to a 19th-century...