An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.

A provocative and personal examination, ranging from medieval mystics to T. S. Eliot and Krautrock, from Britain's most engaging and inventive philosopher

A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

The story of Britain, from its first moments as an island to its possible future

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)

Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google.

Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the world.

From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of the world's first superpower