20th Century History

We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up...

Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times- do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? On 24 February 2022, Russia shocked...

From the creator of the smash hit podcast, a riveting deep dive into the roots of Q Anon, the rise of the extreme right in the US, a democracy in...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of...

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book by an expert professor shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them We are now...

Jamie's most popular cookbook goes Mediterranean in this mouth-watering follow-up 5 Ingredients Mediterranean is everything people loved about the first book, but with the added va-va-voom of basing it on...

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and...

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...

A United Nations insider exposes how anti-American and antidemocratic forces have hijacked the UN and put America and its allies at risk Politicians and pundits are imploring the United States...

Every day, the President of the United States receives a bespoke, top-secret briefing document from the Central Intelligence Agency. Truman started them, Kennedy came to rely on them and Trump...

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing...

The hotly anticipated final book of bestselling author Tim Shipman's Brexit quartet. The Johnson Years to Rishi Sunak 'Magnificent... Pacy and packed with delicious details... Shipman puts you in the...

The hotly anticipated final book of bestselling author Tim Shipman's Brexit quartet. The Johnson Years to Rishi Sunak 'Magnificent... Pacy and packed with delicious details... Shipman puts you in the...

The runaway international No.1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's spectacular career - became a blockbuster film - and introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON... Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic...

Information technology is an important component in the formulation and implementation of business strategies in the single market. 1992 is accelerating changes in the types of computer systems available to...

What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Libya, Iran and more to reveal how modern-day diplomacy really works. So much of...

If Asia's key flashpoint erupts into war, what will Australia do? The decision could reshape our future in Asia. "Whether or not America chooses to fight, a crisis over Taiwan...

Britain's Brexit voters are right. They have been shamefully neglected. But the answer is to change Britain, not to leave Europe. This book sets out how we can radically improve...

On the surface Australia seems to have always been a close friend of Israel, but in fact this has often not been the case. This text rasies the fundamental question...

In these incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. Noam Chomsky examines...

Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of...

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer...

For the first time, Australia's leading trading partner is not a democracy. Rather, it is a powerful authoritarian state with a fast-growing economy, a rapidly modernising military and bold global...

Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development...

From THE PHENOMENON OF 2016 and 2017 comes a new nugget of wisdom in the record-breaking Ladybirds for Grown-Ups series *A HILARIOUS, BRAND NEW BOOK IN THE PHENOMENAL LADYBIRDS FOR...

Craig Unger begins his House of Bush House of Saud, a massive seller in the US likened to All the President's Men, with an explosive question: how is it that...

Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden's own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the "war on terror." Over the last ten years, bin Laden...

Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...

The hotly anticipated final book of bestselling author Tim Shipman's Brexit quartet. The Johnson Years to Rishi Sunak 'Magnificent... Pacy and packed with delicious details... Shipman puts you in the...

Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify...

Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify...

An ideal gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. Defined as sovereign states with a very small population, land area, or both, microstates serve as fascinating case studies...

_______________ 'One of the finest guides around, indeed, the best in recent memory ... beautifully written and meticulously researched' - New York Times 'A highly readable account' - Economist 'Some...

Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...

Argo meets Spotlight , as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent...

The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the twentieth century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith....

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Meticulously sourced, merciless and revelatory. It is a closely observed study of power, and how it is gained, used and lost' FINANCIAL TIMES The unmissable...

It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...

'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and...

From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists...

Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...

THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that...

In 2014, a resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine; post-Saddam Iraq lost a third of its territory to an army of...

"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark...

This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...