| 2023 | | Knowing what we know : the transmission of knowledge: From ancient wisdom to modern magic |
| 2021 | | Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world |
| 2019 | | Exactly : how precision engineers created the modern world |
| 2015 | | Pacific : the ocean of the future |
| 2012 | | Skulls : an exploration of Alan Dudley's curious collection |
| 2011 | | Atlanterhavet : en biografi The Atlantic |
| 2009 | | The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom |
| 2003 | | Krakatoa : the day the world exploded 27 August 1883 |
| 2002 | | The map that changed the world : a tale of rocks, ruin and redemption |
| 1998 | | The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary |