General History
Revolutions between the years 1775-1848 and that confined it to Europe and the Atlantic world. Instead, the authors demonstrate that it began much earlier.
University of Wales Press
Introducing the Medieval Snail Julia Pineau
15th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781837723720
Studies the uses and representations of medieval snails, spanning material culture, medicine and gastronomy. Includes a great variety of texts and images.
Verbena
Collected Curiosities Amanda Edmiston 26th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781446315934
Rich, herbal journey blending folklore, recipes and voices from 1800 to 1929. A return to the enchanted world of The Time Traveller’s Herbal.
Verso Books
Disputing Disaster Perry Anderson 30th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804298015
A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War.
Freedom Ship Marcus Rediker 10th March, hb, eb, £25, 9781836741718
Conspiracy, mutiny and liberation on America’s waterfront by the award-winning author of The Slave Ship.
The Future in Our Past Callum Cant, Matthew Lee
28th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781836742616
Fresh and accessible account of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary tells a story of working-class community then and now.
Unholy Kingdom Malise Ruthven 24th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781839760112
The faultlines of the Middle East converge in Saudi Arabia.
Red Valkyries Kristen Ghodsee 26th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781839766619
Why the most radical feminists were also communists.
The Paris Commune Quentin Deluermoz
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26th May, pb, eb, £25, 9781839768187
The Paris Commune as a global revolutionary event and the laboratory for all the republican and socialist ideas of a century.
Viking
The Lifesavers Roderick Bailey 25th June, hb, eb, £25, 9780241744079
Remarkable true story of the trailblazing men and women of Britain’s blood transfusion service in the Second World War.
Vintage
Empire Without End Imaobong Umoren 4th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781529967401
Important reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy and contemporary systemic racism.
Raise Your Soul Yanis Varoufakis 9th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781529970210
Captivating portrait of Varoufakis’ political awakening, told through the lives of five women, and the West’s tumultuous history from 1924 to the present.
The World After Gaza Pankaj Mishra 5th February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781529978742
From an award-winning writer and thinker an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions and the moral and geopolitical ramifications.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
A Woman’s Work Elinor Cleghorn 12th March, hb, £22, 9781399605427
The first comprehensive history of mothers and mothering from antiquity to today. By the author of Unwell Women.
The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Anne Sebba
5th March, pb, £12.99, 9781399610759
The first book to tell the full story of the Auschwitz women’s orchestra. Sebba speciailises in the histories of 20th-century women’s lives.
Up All Night Imogen Willetts 14th May, hb, £25, 9781399617079 From Edo Japan to 2000s LA via the invention of the discotheque
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
in Nazi-occupied Paris, Up All Night chases the forgotten thrills that created the modern world.
Rasputin Antony Beevor 12th March, hb, £25, 9781399617628
Was Grigori Rasputin a visionary, a fraud or a victim of history? Beevor searches for the truth about the wild mystic who laid the ground for the Russian Revolution.
Red, Red Robin Alison Light 7th May, hb, £22, 9781474619912 Fresh take on family history by the author of Common People and Mrs Woolf and the Servants.
Regina Kate Williams 4th June, hb, £25, 9781474621359 From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, this is an impressive history of royal women.
Children of the Third Reich Catrine Clay 9th July, hb, £22, 9781474622585 The story of two children from the Lebensborn programme, in which 11,000 babies were bred to promote Nazi eugenics and be raised as the future of the Third Reich.
Wellcome Collection
No Ordinary Deaths Molly Conisbee 2nd April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800815889
Vibrant social history of death, dying and how our ends shape our lives and societies.
Wildfire
Babylon Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
21st May, hb, £25, 9781035416738
From the author of Persians comes a fresh and exciting exploration of the world’s first and most illustrious metropolis.
Snafu
Ed Helms 28th May, pb, £12.99, 9781035431007
Comedian’s definitive guide to history’s biggest near misses, ultimate fails and just-about- averted disasters.
Japan’s War Stewart Binns 26th March, pb, £14.99, 9781472295224
The story of Emperor Hirohito’s holy war against the West. Uses first-hand source material to explore Japanese tactics across the largest geographic theatre of conflict during the Second World War.
William Collins
Tinderbox Sadanand Dhume 2nd July, hb, eb, £25, 9780008442774
Devastating critique of India’s failure to fulfil its founding promises.
The Scramble for America Clement Knox 9th April, hb, eb, £25, 9780008447274
The gripping story of the six borders that shaped the US. This is the untold history of how America’s lines were drawn and who paid the price.
Untitled JS Tennant 16th July, hb, eb, £25, 9780008447748
Unconventional and riveting ride through Cuba’s history draws on its confrontations with the US and other superpowers and the realities behind the fantastical, exoticised treatment Cuba often receives.
The CIA Book Club Charlie English 12th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008495169
“Reads like a thriller”— the Sun. “Entertaining and vivid”—Observer. The astonishing story of the 10 million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
Parallel Lives Iain Pears 7th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008629007
From the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.”A fascinating jigsaw puzzle of the lost continent of memory”— Financial Times.
The Spy in the Archive Gordon Corera 21st May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008644833
Compulsive book from The Rest is Classified host about how one man became a traitor to the KGB, stealing deeply secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.
Sword
Max Hastings 7th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008699796
Muscular military history of D-Day and Sword Beach from Sunday Times bestselling author.
The Twitnam Summer Hester Grant 4th June, hb, eb, £25, 9780008699987
A rollicking narrative history set during the summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag.
Downfall of a King Paul Preston 18th June, hb, eb, £30, 9780008741105
Deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’ fall from grace. By a pre-eminent historian of modern Spain.
China John Keay 16th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008816858
Revised, single-volume narrative history is one of the most authoritative out there. Designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist.
William Morrow
The Dangerous Shore Sara Vladic 23rd April, hb, eb, £25, 9780063321045
The untold history of the United States under attack during the Second World War and the improbable patriots who stepped up to defend their country.
Stealing George Washington Daniel Stone
16th July, hb, eb, £25, 9780063458666
Barely known story of the theft of Washington’s diary and other irreplaceable historical documents from the Library of Congress in the 1890s.
WW Norton
A Fate Worse Than Hell W Fitzhugh Brundage 7th April, hb, eb, £30, 9780393541090
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist a harrowing history of the Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South.
Lightning Beneath the Sea James M Tabor
24th July, hb, eb, £24, 9781324036029
The thrilling story of the 19th century’s moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning
telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world.
Dwelling on Earth Stefan Al 29th May, hb, eb, £24, 9781324065722
History of humanity’s most fundamental creation – the home – and its effects on the land, cities and people themselves.
Something New Under the Sun JR McNeill, Bathsheba Demuth
5th June, pb, £16.99, 9781324079347
Environmental history of the 20th-century world updated for the 21st.
The Church Committee Report Matthew Guariglia, Brian Hochman, Beverly Gage
27th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781324089377
After 50 years this shocking report – released in a single, readable volume for the first time – is still the most accurate account of the US government spying on its own citizens.
Playmakers Michael Kimmel 31st March, hb, eb, £25, 9781324105282
Unique, illuminating story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child”.
Indigenous Citizens Paul C Rosier 24th April, hb, eb, £26, 9781324105879
Broad in scope, a history of Native Americans’ fraught relationship with US citizenship and their efforts to protect tribal sovereignty.
The Insatiable Machine Trevor Jackson 8th May, hb, £26, 9781324106876 Concise, colourful and convincing account of capitalism’s rise to global dominance.
Yale University Press
How England Began Nicholas J Higham 10th March, hb, eb, £25, 9780300254921
Engaging and wide- ranging exploration of the end of Roman Britain and the beginnings of England.
Offa Rory Naismith 28th April, hb, eb, £30, 9780300257465
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