American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
by Nigel Hamilton

Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars became a classic of classical times: a virtuoso literary portrait gallery, remarkable not only for its frank dissections...

How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
by Paul Bloom

In How Pleasure Works, the internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Bloom explores one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human beh...

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
by Nathaniel Philbrick

‘The whites want war and we will give it to them.’ Sitting Bull* This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of un...

The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
by Frank McLynn

* Often described as ‘the forgotten war’, the Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War Two. It has...

Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940
by Paul Addison and Jeremy A Crang

* From May to September 1940, during a period that saw some of the most dramatic events of the war – the evacuation from Dunkirk, the Battle of Britai...

Death to the Dictator!: Witnessing Iran's election and the Crippling of the Islamic Republic
by Afsaneh Moqadam

For much of the world, Iran’s 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed. As citizens took to the streets in their millio...

The Price Of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
by Oren Harman

Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time, human beings have contemplated the mysteries of altruism - but it was Darwi...

Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
by Nick Bunker

* At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the Northern Hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Great Lakes, the com...

The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War
by Ben Shephard

* Surprisingly early in the Second World War – long before an Allied victory was assured – people began to plan for its aftermath. They were haunted b...

The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents
by Alex Butterworth

* The last third of the nineteenth century saw the world in flux. Science vied with religion to represent the soul of man, and technological advances ...