Collins Classics – The Brothers Karamazov (Collins Classics)
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Historical states, empires, territories and regions
Collins Classics – The Odyssey (Collins Classics)
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The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB
LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.
Collins Classics – Crime and Punishment (Collins Classics)
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How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
‘Irresistibly fascinating’ MARIE CLAIRE GREECE
‘Essential’ VICTORIA HISLOP
‘Brilliantly conceived’ PAUL CARTLEDGE
An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **
A Best Book of the Year in the Financial Times, The Week, Spectator, BBC History Magazine, NPR, History Today, Waterstones and Daunts
‘A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian’ PETER FRANKOPAN
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this ‘riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult’ (Los Angeles Times).
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year
It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong.
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women
‘Pacy, witty and authoritative’ Jonathan Freedland
‘In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern… a powerful and important book’ Daily Telegraph
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The Sunday Times Bestseller
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.
Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself’ GUARDIAN
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989
‘A gripping and compelling account…. The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft’ CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, Literary Review
This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born.
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
‘Never less than compelling … She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life’ Tom Holland, Literary Review
‘Starts with an erupting volcano – and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich, witty, insightful and wide-ranging’ Sarah Bakewell
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace … He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.’ Sebastian Barry
Nein: Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.
‘Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places them in context with great dexterity. His new book throws fresh and important light on a crucial topic.’ JONATHAN DIMBLEBY