Felipe Fernández-Armesto

All They Could Eat

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Lizzie Collingham

Anne Somerset

The Heat is On

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

By Rosemary Ashton

John Keay

Bristling with Raj

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

By Shashi Tharoor

Kyril FitzLyon

Human Cargo

Children of the Empire

By Gillian Wagner

Leslie Mitchell

Great Expectations

Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World

By Ben Wilson

Tim Heald

Sticky Fingers

Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting Was Born in Colonial India

By Chandak Sengoopta

Jonathan Mirsky

Seeking Shangri-La

The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet

By Kate Teltscher

Stephen Brumwell

A Real Cliffhanger

Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire

By Dan Snow

Jonathan Mirsky

Found At Sea

Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade

By Sîân Rees

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

Leslie Mitchell

Keeping an Eye on the Neighbours

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783

By Brendan Simms

Saul David

Better Than The Romans

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

By Piers Brendon

David Gilmour

Divided It Stands

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By Alex von Tunzelmann

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

By Yasmin Khan

John Edwards

In Spanish Steps

World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II

By Hugh Thomas

Simon Heffer

Decline and Fall

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

By Peter Clarke