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The authoritative guide to Rosslyn Chapel — separating historical fact from popular legend about one of Scotland’s most extraordinary fifteenth-century buildings. Oxbrow and Robertson examine the intricate carvings and their real meanings with scholarly rigour and genuine engagement with the myths.

The comprehensive reference on tartan — over 400 clan, family, and district tartans documented with full-colour swatches, historical notes, and cultural context. From ancient disputed origins to Victorian revival and global fashion icon: the essential illustrated guide for anyone with Scottish heritage or a love of pattern.

Alison Weir’s sweeping narrative history recovers the powerful women who shaped the Crusades — queens, regents, and noblewomen whose political and military decisions were as consequential as any king’s. A fundamentally different view of medieval history from Britain’s bestselling female historian.

Georgian writer Levan Berdzenishvili’s remarkable testimony of Soviet Gulag imprisonment in the 1980s — a portrait gallery of poets, philosophers, and dissidents who maintained their intellectual lives in the camps. Vital historical document and profound meditation on preserving humanity under duress.

Peter Frankopan’s landmark work reframes the entire course of human civilisation through ecology and climate. Drawing on astonishing range, he argues that our relationship with the natural world has always been history’s defining force — essential reading for understanding our present crisis.

The definitive English edition of one of humanity’s oldest religious texts, reproduced in full colour from the Papyrus of Ani. Faulkner’s authoritative translation, accompanied by scholarly commentary, brings this 3,000-year-old guide through the afterlife to vivid, extraordinary life.

Europe: A History by Norman Davies (Penguin) — the most ambitious single-volume European history ever published, tracing the continent’s story from the Ice Age to the end of the Cold War across its full diversity: Eastern and Central European dimensions, religious and intellectual history, culture and everyday life, and the deep structural patterns that repeat across centuries. Encyclopaedic in scope, written with literary flair, the essential one-volume European history. Published by Penguin.

Uniforms of World War II by Andrew Mollo (Lorenz Books) — the uniforms of every major national force in the Second World War, from the Wehrmacht and the Red Army through the British, American, and Commonwealth forces to the Japanese Imperial Army and the Italian Regia Esercito, with full-colour illustrations and historical context for each national uniform tradition. A comprehensive reference for military history enthusiasts. Published by Lorenz Books.