The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Aborigines of Western Australia

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

A Knight of Spain

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

The Folding Doors

Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

The King's Favourite

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

Confucianism and Its Rivals

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

Black Magic: A Tale of the Rise and Fall of Antichrist

The Zulu: An A-Z of Culture and Traditions

The Crown Derby Plate: A Ghost Story for Christmas

Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology

The Hymns of Orpheus

The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes

Feng Shui, or the Rudiments of Natural Science in China

Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over 500,000 copies sold