Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future
General & world history
Afloat: Small Boats, Swell and Seaspray
‘Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight’ MOYA CANNON
Join David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.
Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea: Unabridged edition
‘A new understanding of history’ Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%
‘If you think progress will take us to the promised land, this is a must-read’ Alpa Shah, author of The Incarcerations
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Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth
‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
‘The best single-volume history of the war ever written’ DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want.
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times
‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times
Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life
‘James Crowden is Britain’s best cider writer … Cider Country is the book we’ve all been waiting for.’ Oz Clarke
Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider, uncovering a rich culture and philosophy that has united farmer, maker and drinker for millennia.
India: A History: Revised edition
The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.
Collins Modern Classics – Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (Collins Modern Classics)
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.
The Wood Age: How Wood Shaped the Whole of Human History
When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.
‘A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood…’ John Carey, The Sunday Times
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.
The Hero
THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN
What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child…
‘It’s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?’ Karin Slaughter
‘I don’t know another author so skilled at making me turn the page’ The Times
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER
‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP GOUREVITCH