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Drums In The Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right
Author: Joe Mulhall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Joe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant...
Everyday Activism: How to Change the World in Five Minutes, One Hour or a Day
Author: Rachel England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Y O U C A N M A K E A P O S I T I V E D I...
The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit
Author: Adam Macqueen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Do politicians lie more than they used to? And do we even want them to tell the truth? From...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply...
Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next
Author: Peter Ricketts (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to...
Women of the White House: The Illustrated Story of the First Ladies of the United States of America
Author: Amy Russo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Women of the White House looks at the work, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America's first...
A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War
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Author: Monte Reel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and...
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Author: Michael Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Who controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Author: Tom Segev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 When Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines...
Foreign Native: An African Journey
Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite
Author: Peter Schweizer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and...
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...
Himalaya: A Human History
Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future
Author: Steven Levitsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Two Harvard professors explain the stages in which governments collapse - and how we can prevent this Democracies can...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller
Author: Michelle Obama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir;15 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now...
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Author: Richard McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
On China
Author: Henry Kissinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic...
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Author: Emma Dabiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop...
Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...
Seneca: A Life
Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Author: Jordan B. Peterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE GLOBAL NON-FICTION PHENOMENON OF 2018 - now in paperback Jordan Peterson has become one of the world's...
How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy
Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With new, updated material, P. J. O'Rourke covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential...
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics
Author: Vince Cable (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Through economics our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping...
On Grand Strategy
Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
Author: Roderick Beaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
Author: Samira Shackle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Karachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in...
Fascism: A Warning
Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London
Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were...
Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans and her husband Jung...
Optimism Over Despair
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe...
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017. 'How could such a book speak so powerfully to...