A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing World

A brand-new life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

An engrossing history of the pivotal year when the future of England secured.

The Last Days of Budapest tells the powerful story of one of the least-known but most important episodes of the Second World War: life and death in the Hungarian capital from autumn 1940 to early 1945, a gripping story of spies, fanaticism, genocide and military disaster.

Bestselling historian William Dalrymple reinstates India as the great superpower of Ancient Asia.

What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the lively, long-ignored societies on the borders.

A gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, by the author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.