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Joanna Foat
The author shares the remarkable story of Britain's forgotten Women’s Timber Corps – and the decade-long journey that inspired her four books including her latest novel, The Lumberjills Under Suspicion.
Homa Katouzian
A sweepthrough of modern Iran across several decades tracks its turbulent trajectory from the Anglo-Soviet invasion in 1941 through the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and up to the attack by the US and Israel in early 2026.
Edward Shawcross
Often dismissed as inept, the Emperor of the French transformed the nation through economic modernisation and urban renewal, before defeat in the Franco-Prussian War brought his reign to a dramatic end.
A multi-generational novel attests to the disruptions of war, social change and 21st-century Britain, each witnessed in the lot of a country house and the characters bound to it.
Xiao Hei
Drawing on his firsthand experiences in Tibet, the author explores how the legacy of political repression and the 2008 Lhasa riots inspired his novel.
Kate Vigurs
The story of Edith Bonnesen, the Danish resistance operative who repeatedly escaped danger during the Nazi occupation, is told in English for the first time.
Elisabeth van Houts
While her determination was sometimes mistaken for arrogance, Matilda’s resilience and political judgement ended up securing the English crown for her son, Henry II, and laid the foundations for the Plantagenet dynasty.
Thomas Smith
The overlooked Fifth Crusade and the capture of Damietta show how an ambitious Christian invasion came close to reshaping the medieval Middle East.
Raj Joseph retells the story of Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 and the outbreak of war in a new drama directed by Lyndsey Turner
