The Reign

She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly – except the Q …

The Reign – Life in Elizabeth's Britain

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman’A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.’ Si …

The Way It Was

RRP: £12.99

A wonderfully witty and illuminating social history of post-war Britain, by the author of Engel’s England and Eleven Minutes Late.

Never Better

RRP: £10.99

The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love …

The Prime Ministers We Never Had

RRP: £12.99

BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more ‘prime ministerial’ than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become …

A Child of the East End

RRP: £8.99

‘Funny, stark, fascinating’ THE INDEPENDENT’An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era’ KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society’A vivid portrait of the post-war years, but also a uniqu …

The Year of Chaos

RRP: £12.99

‘Frank and incisive – an insightful look at the most tumultuous period of the Troubles.’ Ian Cobain’This is the Belfast I grew up in. Malachi writes from first-hand experience and brings back memories …

A Bloody Good Rant

RRP: £18.99

‘When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren’t to be a better society, …

How To Stage A Coup

RRP: £10.99

‘A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft… Fascinating’ Jonathan Rugman’Rich in anecdote and detail.’ The TimesToday’s world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on th …

Looking for Theophrastus

RRP: £12.99

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is hi …

The Platinum Queen

***Published in honour of our late Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, The Platinum Queen presents seven decades of world history through the words of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch: over 256 e …

All Along the Echo

RRP: £8.99

‘A cyclone of a novel’ GuardianAn absolute marvel’ Max Porter, bestselling author of Lanny’Dancing and dodging, surprising and poignant’ Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of RevelationFI …

The Hidden Horticulturists

RRP: £12.99

‘Delightful… The Hidden Horticulturists pulsates with the extraordinary energy and excitement of the time.’ Daily MailChosen as one of the Sunday Telegraph’s ‘Top Ten Gardening Books of the Year’ __ …

Boy on Fire

RRP: £12.99

An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, th …

False Prophets

RRP: £12.99

‘Fascinating’ Guardian, ‘Book of the Day”A truly masterly book… A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.’ Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Bri …

The Hundred Years' War

RRP: £14.99

The Hundred Years’ War is the story of the intense competition between the All Blacks and the Springboks over the past 100 years, the games they’ve played and the battles that have raged from parliame …