History
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Trinity
Frank Close
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History
“Trinity” was the codename for...
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The People’s Favourite Poems
Gary Dexter
Read more ▸ Order ▸A unique and beautifully illustrated anthology of the poems that matter most to people, from...
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Out of Italy
Fernand Braudel
Read more ▸ Order ▸The city-states of fifteenth-century Italy exerted unprecedented cultural influence on Europe and the Mediterranean and...
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Ka
Roberto Calasso
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Who?’ – or ‘ka’ – is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso’s retelling of...
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The Penguin Book of Hell
Scott G. Bruce
Read more ▸ Order ▸Journey into the underworld through three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient...
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A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Simon Jenkins
Read more ▸ Order ▸The not-quite-first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling ‘A...
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Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Svetlana Alexievich
Read more ▸ Order ▸Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval...
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Read more ▸ Order ▸When ‘The Silk Roads’ was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major...
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This Is Shakespeare
Emma Smith
Read more ▸ Order ▸A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A...
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
This chronicle of the Apollo missions is a genuine epic. Exhaustive but never exhausting,...
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The Spy Who Changed History
Svetlana Lokhova
Read more ▸ Order ▸On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of...
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On the End of the World
Joseph Roth
Read more ▸ Order ▸In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled...