From the Byzantine to the Battle of Bosworth, the Anglo-Saxons to the American Revolution, here are the History books our booksellers have most loved.
We start with new releases in both hardback and paperback, then look at some of the best recent publications in Ancient, British & Military History - and then we've chosen some of our favourite History books from all of, well, history...
Legenda
Janina Ramirez
Signed first edition
Middleland
Rory Stewart
Signed first edition
The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Lyse Doucet
Signed by the author
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Signed first edition
Indignity
Lea Ypi
The Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
Signed by the translator
Exile
Rosemary Goring
Signed first edition
The Discovery of Britain
Graham Robb
Raise Your Soul
Yanis Varoufakis
Signed first edition
HOW TO KILL A WITCH
Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi
Signed by the author
The Glass Mountain
Malcolm Gaskill
The Sound of Many Waters
Robin A. Crawford
Signed first edition
A Scandal in Königsberg
Christopher Clark
Signed first edition
Revolting
Terry Deary
Signed first edition
The Buried City
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Signed by the author
Changing Scotland
David McCrone
Those Who Are About To Die
Harry Sidebottom
Signed first edition
Craftland
James Fox
Signed first edition
Witches
Steven Veerapen
Signed first edition
The Mirror of Great Britain
Clare Jackson
Signed first edition
Folklore
Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook
Signed first edition
The Traitors Circle
Jonathan Freedland
Signed first edition
The Zorg
Siddharth Kara
Signed first edition
The English House
Dan Cruickshank
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
Sara Lodge
Rain of Ruin
Richard Overy
Signed first edition
Strong Roots
Olia Hercules
Signed first edition
The North Sea
Alistair Moffat
Our Daily War
Andrey Kurkov
Signed by the author
The North Road
Rob Cowen
Atlantic Furies
Midge Gillies
This Way Up
Map Men
The Genius Myth
Helen Lewis
Heirs and Graces
Eleanor Doughty
Signed first edition
Wild History
James Crawford
Converts
Melanie McDonagh
We Were There
Lanre Bakare
The Scapegoat
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Story of a Murder
Hallie Rubenhold
Signed first edition
Deep House
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Signed first edition
The Highland Clans
Alistair Moffat
Glasgow: A New History
Alistair Moffat
Mythica
Emily Hauser
Signed first edition
The Battle for George Square 1919
Gordon Barclay and Louise Heren
Between the Waves
Tom McTague
Victoria's Secret
Fern Riddell
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Queer Georgians
Anthony Delaney
Signed first edition
Charles III
Robert Hardman
The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay
Anna Marshall
The Big Hop
David Rooney
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
Naomi Alderman
Signed first edition
All His Spies
Stephen Alford
Ancient Britain for Modern Folk
Tom Howells
Henry V
Dan Jones
Paris in Ruins
Sebastian Smee
Sparta
Andrew Bayliss
Spice
Roger Crowley
Turncoat
Dennis Sewell
The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra
The Eagle and the Hart
Helen Castor
The Hiroshima Men
Iain MacGregor
Born to Rule
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
The Dead of Winter
Sarah Clegg
The Rest is History Returns
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland
Troublemaker
Carla Kaplan
The Golden Throne
Christopher de Bellaigue
History in the House
Richard Davenport-Hines
Outcast
Oliver Basciano
Parallel Lives
Iain Pears
Four Points of the Compass
Jerry Brotton
A History of England in 25 Poems
Catherine Clarke
Keir Starmer
Tom Baldwin
Marie Antoinette Style (The Official V&A Exhibition Book)
Sarah Grant, Manolo Blahnik, Sofia Coppola and Antonia Fraser
Progress
Samuel Miller McDonald
The End of Enlightenment
Richard Whatmore
America Day by Day
Simone de Beauvoir
Goliath’s Curse
Luke Kemp
Graveyards
Roger Luckhurst
Signed first edition
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Alistair Moffat
How to Build a Spitfire
David Price
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
Ronald Hutton
A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda
Derek R. Peterson
The Roma
Madeline Potter
Saint Petersburg
Sinclair McKay
To See Ourselves
Alistair Moffat
38 Londres Street
Philippe Sands
Signed first edition
Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men
Mara Gold
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker
Annie Gray
Capitalism and Its Critics
John Cassidy
Children of Radium
Joe Dunthorne
Signed first edition
El Generalísimo
Giles Tremlett
The Great Reversal
Kerry Brown
Josephine Baker's Secret War
Hanna Diamond
A Bookseller Recommends...
38 Londres Street
Philippe Sands
"The final piece of the triptych alongside his Baillie Gifford winning East West Street and The Ratline. The book has a dual-centre: Pinochet and his arrest in 1998, and the story of the Nazi Walter Rauff, responsible for the orchestration of mass murder in WW2.
As Sands pulls on the thread of Rauff, his story is revealed to be tangled inextricably with the crimes committed under Pinochet’s rule, wound around the heart of the torture and disappearances that occurred in 38 Londres Street. An extraordinary book by a master storyteller." ~ Saskia, Edinburgh
A Bookseller Recommends...
Saint Petersburg
Sinclair McKay
From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried to wipe off the map.
A Bookseller Recommends...
A Scandal in Königsberg
Christopher Clark
"In 1835, an unassuming corner of the Kingdom of Prussia became the center of a media storm which brought to the surface the anxieties of 19th century German society. Disinformation, far from being a construct of the online media age, has roots that go far deeper. Clark writes with scholarly authority and wit - an incredible book." ~ Harry
Legenda
Janina Ramirez
Signed first edition
The Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
Signed by the translator
The Buried City
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Signed by the author
Those Who Are About To Die
Harry Sidebottom
Signed first edition
Mythica
Emily Hauser
Signed first edition
Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men
Mara Gold
The Ruins of Rome
Roland Mayer
A Short History of Ancient Rome
Pascal Hughes
Sound Tracks
Graeme Lawson
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac
Joan Smith
Ancient Britain for Modern Folk
Tom Howells
Carthage
Eve MacDonald
Fall of Civilizations
Paul Cooper
The Rest is History Returns
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland
Populus
Guy de la Bédoyère
Anaximander
Carlo Rovelli
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
How the World Made the West
Josephine Quinn
Miracula
Paul Chrystal
On the Ocean
Barry Cunliffe
Sparta
Andrew Bayliss
Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan
Warwick Ball
Signed first edition
The Mesopotamian Riddle
Joshua Hammer
The Missing Thread
Daisy Dunn
Plebs Romana
Peter Jones
There Was a Roman in Your Garden
Bettany Hughes
Ancient Rome
Children of Mars
Jeremy Armstrong
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome
Guy de la Bedoyere
The Folds of Olympus
Jason König
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
Philip Matyszak
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Robin Waterfield
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
Theodore Papakostas
Lawless Republic
Josiah Osgood
Master of Rome
The Neverending Empire
Aldo Cazzullo
On This Horrible Day in History
Terry Deary
Proto
Laura Spinney
The Queer Thing About Sin
Harry Tanner
Roman Medicine
Audrey Cruse
The Romans
Edward J. Watts
Rome Before Rome
Philip Matyszak
Stone Lands
Fiona Robertson
The Far Edges of the Known World
Owen Rees
Icarus
K. Ancrum
The Last Dynasty
Toby Wilkinson
The Library of Ancient Wisdom
Selena Wisnom
Moneta
Gareth Harney
Perpetua
Sarah Ruden
Why I am a Stoic
Between Two Rivers
Moudhy Al-Rashid
Demosthenes
James Romm
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Bear Grylls
Greek To Us
John Davie
Horace
Peter Stothard
Julian
Philip Freeman
Plato and the Tyrant
James Romm
Plato of Athens
Pox Romana
Colin Elliott
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
David Chaffetz
Ramesses the Great
Toby Wilkinson
Rome
James Lacey
Scipio Africanus
Dexter Hoyos
Theoderic the Great
Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
Vergil
Sarah Ruden
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
Amanda H. Podany
What Is Ancient History?
Walter Scheidel
The Discovery of Britain
Graham Robb
Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee
Charlie Higson
The Bonfire of the Insanities
John Crace
Craftland
James Fox
Signed first edition
Upon A White Horse
Peter Ross
With the Law on Our Side
Lady Hale
Signed first edition
The North Sea
Alistair Moffat
Night Life
John Lewis-Stempel
Signed first edition
Exile
Rosemary Goring
Signed first edition
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
Sara Lodge
The North Road
Rob Cowen
Heirs and Graces
Eleanor Doughty
Signed first edition
We Were There
Lanre Bakare
Church Going
Andrew Ziminski
The Scapegoat
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker
Annie Gray
The Siege
Ben Macintyre
The Light of Day
Christopher Stephens and Louise Radnofsky
Victoria's Secret
Fern Riddell
The Art Isles
Charlotte Mullins
Blood, Sweat and Asparagus Spears
Andrew Turvil
Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2025
Tim Benson
Queer Georgians
Anthony Delaney
Signed first edition
The Blood in Winter
Jonathan Healey
Converts
Melanie McDonagh
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
Terry Deary
Ancient Britain for Modern Folk
Tom Howells
Eighteen
Alice Loxton
The First King of England
David Woodman
Beneath our Feet
Michael Lewis, Ian Richardson and Mackenzie Crook
Signed first edition
Born to Rule
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
Entitled
Andrew Lownie
George Orwell: A Reader's Guide
D. J. Taylor
Wings
Paul McCartney
Human Resources
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba
Keir Starmer
Tom Baldwin
Soft
Ferdinand Mount
Strangeland
Jon Sopel
The Strategists
Phillips Payson O'Brien
To the Sea by Train
Andrew Martin
Uncommon Ground
Patrick Galbraith
Signed first edition
Queen James
Gareth Russell
Charles III
Robert Hardman
The Foreign Invention of British Art
Leslie Primo
The Lie of the Land
Guy Shrubsole
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
Ronald Hutton
All That Glistens
Martin Thorley
Enchanted Ground
Steven Lovatt
Every Kind of People
Kathryn Faulke
Every Valley
Charles King
The Great Reversal
Kerry Brown
A Guide to Regency Dress
Hilary Davidson
Interwar
Gavin Stamp
Less
Patrick Grant
The Lost Paths
Jack Cornish
Mining Men
Emily P Webber
These Divided Isles
Philip Stephens
The Times Sir
Andrew Riley
Every Monument Will Fall
Dan Hicks
Great Britain?
Torsten Bell
Harold Wilson
Alan Johnson
History in the House
Richard Davenport-Hines
Kingmaker
Graham Brady
Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
Sword
Max Hastings
The Glass Mountain
Malcolm Gaskill
Victory '45
James Holland and Al Murray
The Traitors Circle
Jonathan Freedland
Signed first edition
Operation Biting
Max Hastings
War and Power
Phillips Payson O'Brien
Signed by the author
Rain of Ruin
Richard Overy
Signed first edition
Our Daily War
Andrey Kurkov
Signed by the author
The Hiroshima Men
Iain MacGregor
SAS The Great Train Raid
Damien Lewis
Signed first edition
Josephine Baker's Secret War
Hanna Diamond
Tunisgrad
Saul David
Signed first edition
The Longest Walk Home
Ray Bailey and David Wilkins
The Unknown Warrior
John Nichol
Armageddon
Max Hastings
How to Build a Spitfire
David Price
Lest We Forget
Tessa Dunlop
The Siege
Ben Macintyre
The Stalin Affair
Giles Milton
Question 7
Richard Flanagan
Hitler's People
Richard J. Evans
SAS Great Escapes Four
Damien Lewis
Signed first edition
All His Spies
Stephen Alford
The Bells of Nagasaki
Takashi Nagai
The Deadly Game
Will Britten
On My Watch
Jens Stoltenberg
The Spy in the Archive
Gordon Corera
How to Win an Information War
Peter Pomerantsev
The Nuclear Age
Serhii Plokhy
Paris '44
Patrick Bishop
The Accidental Soldier
Owain Mulligan
The Battle for George Square 1919
Gordon Barclay and Louise Heren
Battle of the Arctic
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
Geraint Jones
The Great Siege of Malta
Marcus Bull
The Illegals
Shaun Walker
On Democracies and Death Cults
Douglas Murray
SAS Great Escapes Three
Damien Lewis
Sky Warriors
Saul David
The Strategists
Phillips Payson O'Brien
Unknown Enemy
Charles Dick
Wolfpack
Roger Moorhouse
Hiroshima
M.G. Sheftall
The Mad and the Brave
Colin Freeman
Mavericks
Nick Higham
The Mission
Tim Weiner
Naples 1944
Keith Lowe
Saint Petersburg
Sinclair McKay
Armada
Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker
Arnhem: Black Tuesday
Al Murray
Bread and War
Felicity Spector
Chanel's War
Richard Wallace
Churchill's D-Day
Richard Dannatt and Allen Packwood
Cold War Britain
Fraser McCallum
Double Agent Victoire
David Tremain
First Class Comrades
J. Boulter
Four Shots in the Night
Henry Hemming
France Since 1945
Robert Gildea
Ian Fleming's War
Mark Simmons
The Illusionist
Robert Hutton
Into the Reich
Prit Buttar
Misread Signals
Dermot Turing
Operation Bowler
Jonathan Glancey
Operation Pimento
Adam Hart
Operation Wrath of God
Aviva Guttmann
Out of Hitler's Shadow
Tobias Straumann
The Poet's Game
Paul Vidich
Rogue Agent
James Crossland
Shifting Sands
Gordon Kerr
The Sisterhood
Liza Mundy
SOE in 100 Objects
Belinda Curwen
Sword Beach
Stephen Fisher
To Die With Such Men
Shannon Monaghan
Wannsee
The White Lady
Helen Fry
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
The World of the Cold War
Vladislav Zubok
Advance Britannia
Alan Allport
Agent Zo
Clare Mulley
The Golden Throne
Christopher de Bellaigue
If Russia Wins
Carlo Masala
Night Train to Odesa
Jen Stout
The Path of Light
Anthony Seldon
SAS Daggers Drawn
Damien Lewis
The Army That Never Was
Taylor Downing
Believable Lies
Terry Stiastny
Chernobyl Roulette
Serhii Plokhy
The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
The Defector
Richard Kerbaj
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
Endgame 1944
Jonathan Dimbleby
Goebbels and 'Total War'
Peter Longerich
Inside Hitler's Bunker
Joachim Fest
Killers of the King
Charles Spencer
Between Two Fires
Joshua Yaffa
Salvador
Joan Didion
A Kick in the Belly
Stella Dadzie
River Kings
Cat Jarman
The Light Ages
Seb Falk
Novels In Three Lines
Felix Feneon
Germany
Neil MacGregor
"A glorious, all-encompassing history of the Germanic lands & peoples." ~ Duncan, Edinburgh
The White Ship
Charles Spencer
Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano
East West Street
Philippe Sands
The Wager
David Grann
Colditz
Ben Macintyre
Eminent Churchillians
Andrew Roberts
"A witty and well-written take on the prominent figures in Churchill's era." ~ Calum, Edinburgh
