John Keay

Soft Power

Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism

By Sven Beckert

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

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

By Arthur Herman

Frank McLynn

Spartans of the Plains

The Comanche Empire

By Pekka Hämäläinen

Raymond Seitz

Puritan’s Progress

Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home

By Susan Hardman Moore

Jonathan Mirsky

Tropical Fever

Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom

By Philip Eade

Saul David

Better Than The Romans

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

By Piers Brendon

Simon Heffer

Decline and Fall

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

By Peter Clarke

Piers Brendon

The Sun Does Set

Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968

By Ronald Hyam

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Liberty, Equality, Enmity

The French Intifada: The Long War between France and Its Arabs

By Andrew Hussey

Patrick Marnham

Road to Nowhere

Congo: The Epic History of a People

By David Van Reybrouck (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo

By Anjan Sundaram

John Adamson

Where Have All the Aboriginals Gone?

In Tasmania

By Nicholas Shakespeare

Robert Irwin

Return of the Mahdi?

Saladin

By Anne-Marie Eddé (Translated by Jane Marie Todd)

Michael Burleigh

Imperial Insights

Memories of Empire, Volume 1: The White Man’s World

By Bill Schwarz

Bertrand Taithe

Of Arms & Menelik

The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

By Raymond Jonas

Kwasi Kwarteng

The Brute Facts

Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

By Richard Gott

Matthew Parker

Back to Barbados

Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

By Andrea Stuart

David Gilmour

For Better, For Worse

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain

By John Darwin

Aidan Hartley

Life at One Remove

In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Jane Ridley

Father of Singapore

Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781–1826

By Victoria Glendinning

Piers Brendon

Lords of the Prairie 24

Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West

By Peter Pagnamenta