History and Current Events

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Updated February 20, 2026
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The damning inside story of Joe Biden's decline while in office - and the desperate...
Abundance
Ezra Klein
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Laura Spinney
*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world....
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Ada Palmer
Paper Book
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years,...
America, América: A New History of the New World
Greg Grandin
The story of the United States' unique sense of itself was forged facing south - no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from...
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
Luke Kemp
A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. Why do civilisations collapse? Is human progress possible? Are we approaching our endgame? For the...
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
Owen Rees
Paper Book
'A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times 'A strikingly original take . . . uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery' Spectator 'This is the book for expanding your ancient history horizon'...
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
Scott Ellsworth
Paper Book
Told with a page-turning pace and eye-opening cast of characters, Ellsworth sets out to correct a pivotal moment of American history that we have gotten completely wrong-until now. Jam-packed with fresh, revelatory evidence, Ellsworth's research strongly infers that by the time that the house lights...
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Shaun Walker
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel
Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World
Tim Bouverie
A landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing Hitler 'An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told, immensely wide-ranging and utterly fascinating ... Superb' JAMES HOLLAND ...
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, ‘The most devastating royal biography ever written’ – Daily Mail
Andrew Lownie
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year for The Times, Financial Times and Waterstones 'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES 'A damning cannonball of truth through the York ramparts' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Surely has a claim to...

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