Historie

David Grann

Yuval Noah Harari

Rosalind Miles

E. H. Carr

Marc Chagall

Catherine Merridale

Now in paperback, this reveals how Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was sent home from Switzerland in 1917 in a sealed train, by the German government. They hoped this would sow confusion…

Kehinde Andrews

Ian Mortimer

Serhii Plokhy

Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the…

Ben Rawlence

Thomas Harding

A personal and panoramic new history of Germany in the 20th century, by the author of "Hanns & Rudolf". Reveals the story of the country through the inhabitants of one small wooden building. Now in paperback.…

Susan Jacoby

Alena Mizerová, Lea Novotná, Radka Vyskočilová…

A university without its own publishing house is like a cathedral without an organ: wild-growing and silent. Masaryk University has got its publishing house, which even ranks among the largest in Central…

Matthew Griffin, John Howard Griffin

Deepak Unnikrishnan

In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals are shipped in to construct towering monuments that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. They work without the rights of citizenship and endure…

Anne Sebba

How Parisian women loved, lived and died in the 1940s - under Occupation and then after Liberation.

Robert Hutton

Ron Chernow

H. R. McMaster

"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." -H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)…

Hannah Jewell

David Grann

Václav Smil

Brian C. Muraresku

Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano maps the international cocaine trade. He investigates the evolution of cocaine trafficking, from Mexican drug cartels to money laundering through Wall Street. Tracking cocaine's physical…