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

Edmund de Waal

Feat of Clay

The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew – Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture

By Tanya Harrod

Martin Evans

Changing of the Guard

Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

By Martin Thomas

Piers Brendon

Baiting the Tigers

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

By William Dalrymple

Patrick Wilcken

Putting Brazil on the Map

The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

By Susanna B Hecht

Simon Heffer

Messy Break-Ups

Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World – 1945–65

By Michael Burleigh