History

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy.

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.

100 tales of extraordinary women - the most highly supported original book ever in the history of crowdfunding.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times.

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians.

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

A handsome gift edition of one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War: Viktor Frankl's moving account of his experiences in Auschwitz.

This bloody, chilling, stunning tale is "far and away the greatest story in Australia's history, if not the world's."

The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust.

A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian.

The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions.

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness.

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler

Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.

The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment

Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers’ ploughs. History comes to life with Peter FitzSimons

An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children.

Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time

From 'the master storyteller of the human race' (Daily Mail), a brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't.

The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.

The first account of one of the greatest heroes of WWII, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion, sabotage and escape from a Nazi death camp

The prize-winning bestselling historian delivers the first authoritative general account for thirty years.