Paul Cartledge

Corinth in Flames

Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece

By Robin Waterfield

Peter Jones

Omphalocracy

Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World

By Michael Scott

Sibyls: Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World

By Jorge Guillermo

Allan Massie

Over the Wine-Dark Sea

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Adam Nicolson

Paul Johnson

Pandora’s Paintbox

The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art

By Malcolm Bull

Peter Jones

Land of Swamps & Sorties

The Romans Who Shaped Britain

By Sam Moorhead & David Stuttard

Christopher Kelly

Europe’s Growing Pains

Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500–700

By Peter Sarris

Simon J V Malloch

Barbarians at the Gate

Rome: An Empire’s Story

By Greg Woolf

Peter Jones

Better Than Wembley

The Colosseum

By Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard

Simon J V Malloch

Sub Specie Aeternitatis

And Man Created God: Kings, Cults, and Conquests at the Time of Jesus

By Selina O’Grady

Allan Massie

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

The Twelve Caesars

By Matthew Dennison

Peter Heather

Charity Begins in Rome

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD

By Peter Brown

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Liquid Assets

Thirst: Water & Power in the Ancient World

By Steven Mithen

John Man

Rafts on a Sea of Grass

The History of Central Asia, Volume One: The Age of the Steppe Warriors

By Christoph Baumer (translated by Miranda Bennett)

Tom Holland

By the Rivers of Nineveh

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

By Stephanie Dalley

Andrew Brown

Ignoble Savages

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live

By Marlene Zuk

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

By Frans de Waal

Allan Massie

The Queen & the Editor

Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra

By Peter Stothard

Christopher Hart

A Man of Fine Taste

Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet

By Harry Eyres

Peter Sarris

Singing in the Temple of Jupiter

The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes & Imperial Pretenders

By Peter Heather

Anthony Sattin

Taking off the Bandages

The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut’s Mummy

By Jo Marchant