Love and Murder

Daniel Finkelstein

An extraordinary family memoir of tragedy and survival during WWII Daniel Finkelstein’s maternal grandfather, Alfred Wiener, was a decorated hero from the Great War, and is now acknowledged to have be…

ON THE BRINK

Chris Bickerton

A MAJOR NEW HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR. This sweeping work of narrative history argues that Europe has been at the centre of a number of critical historical trends of the last thi…

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs

Gulchehra Hoja

In February 2018, 24 members of Gulchehra Hoja’s family, including her elderly  mother and father, her brother, cousins, aunts and uncles, all disappeared overnight. In one evening, everyone she had l…

The Last Slaves

Hannah Durkin

This blockbuster work of history combines original archival research with vivid historical narrative to uncover an unknown American story. It sheds new light on the realities of slavery – and its long…

Tomorrow’s People

Paul Morland

Population is the vast hidden force shaping our future. It is breaking existing institutions and building their replacements, disrupting and destroying an old-world order, and bringing into existence…

Killers of the Flower Moon (Young Readers Edition)

David Grann

This essential book introduced young readers to the Reign of Terror against the Osage people–one of history’s most ruthless and shocking crimes. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the wor…

Men Are Like Melons

Charlotte Sarkozy

Wild Dances

William Lee Adams

William Lee Adams is the pre-eminent voice on Eurovision around the world. With 40 million unique hits yearly, his site, WiwiBloggs, has propelled him to be the cultural critic of this mad and wonderf…

Maybe I Don’t Belong Here

David Harewood

In this powerful memoir, the actor David Harewood recounts his psychotic break-down and recovery — whilst addressing the connection between mental health and issues of race, identity and belonging. Wh…

THE AGE OF UNPEACE

Mark Leonard

“Mark Leonard has reshaped how we look at the world.” — WILL HUTTON Since the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world’s economy, transport and communications and eliminating borders t…