The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator
The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas Kendrick
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell—providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An award-winning historian makes the case for food’s cultural importance, stressing its crucial role throughout human history
A leading historian’s guide to great-power competition with China and Russia, as told through America’s successes and failures in the Cold War
A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture’s place in the contemporary moment
An engagingly accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day
A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK’s most renowned concert pianists
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry