At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins …

In Search of Ancient North Africa is a journey into the ruins of a landscape to make sense of these stories through the lives of five men and one woman. Together these six lives, clouded with as much myth as fact, represent classical North Africa.

Heirs of the Prophet Muhammed is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry which also allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world.
‘A tour de force. One of the best summary histories of Islam from its beginnings until today I have come across. Informative, engaging, and excitingly written’ - Ghada Karmi, author, In Search of Fatima

The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an. Barnaby Rogerson's elegant biography not only looks directly at the life of the Prophet Muhammad, but beautifully evokes for western readers the Arabian world into which he was born in 570 AD.

Updated to cover recent events in Libya and elsewhere in North Africa, this guide to the history and culture of Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria covers the region from its earliest beginnings to life today.

THE LAST CRUSADERS is about the last great conflict between the East and the West, the titanic struggle between Hapsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

On Travel presents a pyrotechnic display of cracking one-liners, cynical wordplay and comic observation, mining three thousand years of global wit and wisdom: from Pliny to Spinoza and from Albert Einstein to Aunt Augusta …

This book is the tale of an ordinary family, quietly proud of their parish, pub and position, who treat their children as equals. The only extraordinary thing about them is that they have kept hold of their stories, which now reach back over fifteen generations.

Rogerson's Book of Numbers tells the stories behind our iconic numbers. The stories unfold from millions to zero: from the number of the beast (666) to the seven deadly sins, the twelve signs of the zodiac to the twelve days of Christmas.

A pocket-sized collection of all the favourite verses that have inspired desert travellers. From Coleridge’s Kubla Khan to Shelley’s Ozymandias, through James Elroy Flecker, Byron, Longfellow and Heine. Also includes the great originals such as the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and the Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia. 

London’s poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth’s dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday’s lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this collection is full of grief, irony and delight. and a connection to our political history.

Marrakesh is the drum that beats an African rythmn into the complex soul of Morocco. There has never been a more instantly exotic destination for it is like a dream landscape; in the background the steel blue of the High Atlas mountains with their snowy tops, then a hint of the desert, then vast, weathered, red earth ramparts, tall tapering palms, orchards of oranges and verdant olives.

Meetings with Remarkable Muslims is a collection of personal reminiscences of friendships and chance encounters which have left an indelible mark on the author. This diverse collection of writers draws together a world which stretches from Morocco in the west to India in the east.