There are no ultra-recent publications, but these are relatively recent:
Darvill, Timothy. 2010. Prehistoric Britain. London: Routledge.
O'Connor, Anne. 2007. Finding time for the old Stone Age: a history of Palaeolithic archaeology and Quaternary geology in Britain, 1860-1960. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bradley, Richard. 1984. The social foundations of prehistoric Britain: themes and variations in the archaeology of power. London: Longman.
Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. From genesis to prehistory: the archaeological three age system and its contested reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pryor, Francis. 2001. Seahenge: new discoveries in prehistoric Britain. London: HarperCollins.
Wymer, John. 1999. The Lower Palaeolithic occupation of Britain. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology.