Irish Food History, A Companion: An 850-page serving that leaves you wanting more
Collection with many original and fascinating essays represents a useful step towards understanding how Ireland is perhaps finally emerging from the shadow of the Famine
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World: Mariners and commodities as a map of history
Roger Crowley explores how ‘restless Europeans’ such as Spain and Portugal created a global ‘maritime belt’ of trade and empire
How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn: A sprawling new history
Using archaeology and DNA analysis, Quinn shows how dividing lines mislead us about the ancient world
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton - Laying bare ‘a global regime of violence’
A radical, provocative and important book by one of the leading historians of international law
The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire by David Veevers
The author argues that instead of thinking that Britain ‘made’ the modern world we should think about how ‘Britain unmade the world’ by replacing many histories with its own
Annie Ernaux, the new Nobel laureate, pushes what is possible in literature, nonfiction and the spaces in between
The writer’s explorations of the relationship between life and memory have captured decades of French history and women’s experience
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
Scott Reynolds Nelson on how trade routes shaped modern global power relations
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: A book of evidence
Book review: Sally Hayden’s book is an indictment of a guilty continent
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe: Asking difficult questions about both past and present
Book review: Emily Greble sees Muslims not as ‘relics of a non-European past’ but vital actors in Europe’s tortured modernisation
The Presidents’ Letters: An Unexpected History of Ireland
Wide ranging correspondence covers high-level rows and direct links with citizenry
The International Brigades: Magnificent and readable history
Book review: Giles Tremlett offers a sweeping account of fascism and the Spanish civil war, with a vital warning
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die
Tom Gallagher’s portrait of Portugal’s totalitarian leader illuminates 20th-century Europe
Black Abolitionists in Ireland: Important and well-researched
Christine Kinealy meticulously traces the travels of 10 abolitionists to Ireland
Epidemics and Society: History shows they are here to stay
Book review: Snowden explains diseases are not random events triggered without warning
The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather: the hero who first exposed the Holocaust
The Costa Book of the Year compellingly tells how Witold Pilecki infiltrated Auschwitz