Historie

Robert Fisk

Jerry Brotton

Christopher Clark

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Mark Galeotti

Janina Ramirez

Adam Lebor

President Bill Clinton

Dan Cruickshank

Jeremy Scahill

In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield…

Afua Hirsch

How do we determine what is beautiful? Whose standards are we trying to meet when we spend our hard-earned money on our haircare, skincare and makeup, where do they come from, and how can we learn…

Ben Rhodes

Jules Evans

Benjamin Ferencz

I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that sometimes they are…

A. C. Grayling

Dan Jones

Ian Kershaw

When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works…

Ron Chernow

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, under Halley's Comet, the rambunctious Twain was an early teller of tall tales. He left his home in Missouri at an early age, piloted steamboats on the Mississippi…

Jonathan Freedland

Various

Jung Chang

Ruby Tandoh

Justin Marozzi

Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, rich and controversial history. Unlike the notorious and shorter-lived Atlantic slave trade, its story is much less known. In contrast to American plantation…

Scott Anderson