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The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and
'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening Standard THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men...
A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
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In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Metis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance...
Follow the Leader: Democracy & the Rise of the Strongman: Quarterly
What has gone wrong with political leadership in Australia? And are things likely to change with a change of leader or government? What is true political leadership, and how do...
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals
A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a...
The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct
Sigmund Freud's death drive remains among the most controversial concepts in psychoanalysis, something which post-Freudians never could reach consensus on. Over time, it fell into oblivion. Recent developments, however, have...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to
'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar 'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that...
Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10
'I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully: I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart' Nigella Lawson From the ingeniously quick-witted John Crace comes a satirical memoir from...
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018 Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader,...
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future
The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before. Whether it's Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, Tsipras, or even...
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital
A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. 'Intelligently written and powerfully argued.' Paul Mason 'Witty, scathing, and entertaining.' Danny Dorling Journalist Sam Bright...
For the Good of the World: Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer
A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10
'I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully: I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart' Nigella Lawson From the ingeniously quick-witted John Crace comes a satirical memoir from...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on...
How to Be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war
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How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of...
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A film tie-in edition of Sunday the Times bestselling thriller, to coincide with the release of the Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons Now a major NETFLIX movie starring Jeremy Irons,...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we...
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing...
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth...
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine What if you woke up one morning and found...
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes
Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
An acclaimed historian of ideas shows how capitalist extremists profit from the collapse of the democratic nation Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork...
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than...
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
An essential work outlining the origin and ongoing reality of global racism, from Britain's leading authority on Black Studies. The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the...
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
The bestselling, no-holds-barred expose of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran...
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
The hilarious and universally lauded memoir of life as the daughter of a gun-toting, all-American Catholic priest When the expense of a medical procedure forces the 30-year-old Patricia to move...
The Athenian Constitution
A fascinating study of Athenian political machinery, containing invaluable insights into Athenian democracy Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis...
Stop Bloody Bossing Me About: How We Need To Stop Being Told What To Do
Hands, face, space. Curfews. Don't drink. Bend your knees. Conform, obey, comply - surrender. British life has become infested by bossiness. Boris Johnson won power as one of life's free-wheelers...
A Secret Country
In print for over twenty years, this remains one of the best and most revealing portraits of John Pilger's homeland, Australia. Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his...
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...
Titan of the Senate: Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of Bipartisanship
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If greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times--discover the life and career of the senator through archival material, original research, and exclusive...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of ideas by controlling its citizens' movements. They believed strict...
Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump
How do you stop a rogue president? How do you protect our country from a man who lies, who obstructs justice, and who seeks to cheat with foreign powers to...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India
'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES 'The expert on America's right-wing fringe ... With kidnappings,...
You Shall Be as Gods: Pagans, Progressives, and the Rise of the Woke Gnostic Left
Our country doesn't have a partisan problem, a political problem, a social problem, or an economic problem. We have a spiritual problem. What in the world is happening? To many...
America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , AND AMAZON BESTSELLER America's most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's...
An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment,...
Churchill & Son
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The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson...