Allen Lane
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The Whisperers
Orlando Figes
The much-anticipated new book from Orlando Figes, which brings to life the personalized accounts of the oppressed in Stalinist Russia
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The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
The truth behind three decades of erasing and remaking the world
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The Stuff of Thought
Steven Pinker
From the bestselling author of The Language Instinct
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The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan
A unique take on the world - its recent past, its immediate future - from the man who, more than any other, has shaped its economy for the past eighteen years
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Nixon and Kissinger
Robert Dallek
A gripping portrait of two complex men who despised each other but needed each other - and shaped the course of world history at the same time
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Black Mass
John Gray
A truly frightening and challenging work by one of the country's leading thinkers
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World War One
Norman Stone
A radical new account of the First World War from one Britain's most extraordinary historians
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The Lodger
Charles Nicholl
A dazzling new book from one of Britain's most celebrated and bestselling non-fiction authors
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The Atomic Bazaar
William Langewiesche
A shocking and revelatory new work in which the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production
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The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Prompted by the extraordinary international controversy provoked by their London Review of Books article, Mearsheimer and Walt have now written this important new book
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Common Wealth
Jeffrey Sachs
A major new book by one of the world's most famous and influential economists, addressing our most urgent concerns
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Terror and Consent
Philip Bobbitt
Philip Bobbitt is the leading public commentator about this subject on either side of the Atlantic
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Fidel Castro
Castro with Ramonet
The first time Castro has ever told his complete life story
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Napoleon's Wars
Charles Esdaile
A substantial new interpretation of the colossal conflict that shapes our world still today
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Deluxe
Dana Thomas
From inside the luxury industry comes the truth on what designer brands are really worth
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Vishnu's Crowded Temple
Maria Misra
A major, contentious, highly entertaining new history of India from 1858 to the present day
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Byzantium
Judith Herrin
A dazzling and highly original summation of the city and culture which was the bulwark of the West for a thousand years
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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
Peter Clarke
"I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire" Winston Churchill, November 1942
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Summits
David Reynolds
The new book from the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning In Command of History
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The Force of Destiny
Christopher Duggan
A vivid and highly readable history of Italy from the early nineteenth century, when the movement for national unification began, down to the present
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God's Architect
Rosemary Hill
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The Wild Trees
Richard Preston
Courage and passion in one of the last great unexplored realms on earth
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Hatfield's Herbal
Gabrielle Hatfield
The definitive text for all those lost herbal remedies: meet the new Culpeper
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A Life Decoded
Craig Venter
The world's most famous and controversial scientist
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Lion of Jordan
Avi Shlaim
The first full biography of the legendary king, revealing decades of secret peace negotiations in the Middle East
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At Large and At Small
Anne Fadiman
From the author of Ex Libris, a celebration of personal obsessions that will appeal to all book lovers
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Microtrends
Mark J. Penn with Kinney Zalesne
Mark Penn, advisor to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and many others, reveals the microtrends that are shaping the world
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Three Victories and a Defeat
Brendan Simms
A major new work by the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted author of Unfinest Hour
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A History of Histories
John Burrow
A panoramic history, from Herodotus and Thucydides to the twentieth century, of history itself - how it has been conceived, who wrote it and why
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Travels with Herodotus
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book provides the key to his whole career as a traveller and reporter
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Toujours Tingo
Adam Jacot de Boinod
The sequel to the global smash hit The Meaning of Tingo: even more extraordinary words that will change the way you see the world
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Albert Jack's Ten-Minute Mysteries
Albert Jack
From the Bermuda Triangle to Big Foot, the world's mysteries hilariously explained, explored and debunked in ten minutes flat
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Legacy of Ashes
Tim Weiner
The definitive account that brings down to size one of the mythic organizations of the Cold War and post-Cold War world
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Pardon My French
Charles Timoney
The hilarious survival guide to French: from ordering a steak without getting sneered at to how exactly to say oh la la
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Luck and the Irish
R. F. Foster
A combative and controversial book about the radical changes that have transformed Ireland over the last thirty years
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Bamber Gascoigne's Challenging Quiz Book
Bamber Gascoigne
Prepare for your very own University Challenge
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