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The Freedom to Be Free
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir...
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829
The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth...
Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring
Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to...
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Annie Besant's Fight for Reproductive Rights
An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories. 'Makes...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and...
Why War?
A study of what leads humans to war, from one of our great military historians There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand...
Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance
An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe A captivating portrait of number-one...
Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions
Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...
Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders
Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline With a foreword by Geraldine Brooks. For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who...
The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today's Most Essential Superpower
'Fascinating ... Should be required reading everywhere' STEPHEN FRY Trust: like water, like electricity, our society can't function without it. It's a treasure, a living thing that can be cultivated...
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy? This is the story of the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel,...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,
Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times In 1854, Victorian miners fought a...
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark...
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution
Winner of the NCR Book Award. Number 1 bestseller in hb. World-wide best-seller. The book which made Schama's name The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French...
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can
A masterclass on how to achieve real change 'Everything a manifesto should be- heartfelt, hectoring, impassioned, rousing.' The i __________________________________________________ Your country needs you. Your planet needs you. Your time...
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen...
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo
The iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first time In 1791, inspired by the ideals...
Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold
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...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
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...
What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's
"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the
NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the...
Your Right to Protest: Understand It, Use It
An indispensable guide to your right to protest'A lawyer in your pocket' - The Secret BarristerIn this handbook, campaigning lawyer Christian Weaver brings together everything you need to know when...
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
A breath-taking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food...
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and...
No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
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...
Stalin's Wine Cellar
The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. 'A wild, boys-own adventure...
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat...
Guerrilla Warfare
The revolutionary Che Guevara's guide to guerrilla war First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. Che considered that the Cuban...
The Bolivian Diary
The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death- the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba...
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848....
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...
History of the Russian Revolution
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution...
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the
From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...
We Do Not Part
Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful...
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women...
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the
The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things' (Caitlin Moran)...
Goliath: What the West got Wrong about Russia and Other Rogue States
We are living in an age overshadowed by war. We can't stop it, but we can survive it. Here are 10 rules for how. Everything you think you know about...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
Lenin on the Train
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the...