James Hawes

James’s latest book "The Shortest History of Ireland" is the 2026 #1 bestselling non-fiction in Ireland across all genres and formats, despite being a hardback. This spectacular success builds on “The Shortest History of Germany” (2017) which reached #2 in the Sunday Times in 2018, with translations in 20 languages, and "The Shortest History of England” (2020) which reached #4 in the Times.