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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWe think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines ‘western’ culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the…
The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of EnglandEurope has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins tells the story of its evolution from a battlefield of warring tribes to peace, wealth and freedom —…
‘The Penguin History of Europe series … is one of contemporary publishing’s great projects’ New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a ‘classical Europe’, using frames of reference created by ancient…
Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad’Engrossing … eye-opening … an enormously refreshing treat’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSince Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the ‘New World’ it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE SPECTATOR AND NPR ‘A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat’ Simon Sebag Montefiore’One of the most profound books I…
‘A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises — which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding…
Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich’s classic history of VeniceA History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world’s busiest and most powerful city…
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012Winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book Prize 2014The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward…
‘Remarkable . . . grips with the force of a thriller’ Robert MacFarlaneAn astonishing expos? of the aftermath of Chernobyl — and the plot to cover up the truthThe official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, ‘the worst nuclear disaster in history’, is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving…
`Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!` But what it`s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance constable Detritus (a troll), Lance constable Angua (a woman… most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all…
Chosen 16 times as a ‘Book of the Year’ — the top non-fiction pick of 2012’The best work of modern history I have ever read’ A. N. Wilson, Financial TimesAt the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin…
Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a…
‘A magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history … This is a book for today and tomorrow’ Financial Times Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces, states…
‘Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture, cosmology, maths, politics, philosophy and history’ Bernardine Evaristo, The Times Literary Supplement Books of the YearIn this powerful book about why black hair matters, Emma Dabiri…
When Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief, his mother calls him ‘Wild Thing’ and sends him to bed without any supper. Alone in his room, Max enters a magical world and sets sail across the sea to the place where the wild things are. The wild things roar their terrible roars and…