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Whose Europe?: The Turn Towards Democracy
Author: Dennis Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 270 A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of democracy. How can the European Union be made more democratic?...
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller
Author: Robert Peston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for...
Politically Homeless
Author: Matt Forde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Rarely is such an important book this funny. And rarely is such a funny book this important' - RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny,...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit
Author: Bernard Keane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines...
American Politics: A Graphic Guide
Author: Laura Locker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Jules Scheele teams up with Dr...
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...
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 0 Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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...
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Author: Jenna Bush Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today...
Scott of the Antarctic: The Definitive Biography
Author: David Crane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 David Crane has given us a magisterial portrait of one of Britain's greatest heroes and explorers, acclaimed as the...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency
Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Wicked Lord Lyttelton
Author, Thomas Frost Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 192 A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, indulged in all the vices and libertinism...
Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom
Author, David W. Blight Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 912 **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of...
Backstop Land
Author, David Passes Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 46 A witty and impassioned book on Ulster, which has been thrust into the centre of British and European politics...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money
Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion
Author: Eliot Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg,...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
Author: Eric Haseltine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Author: Oliver Letwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying....
Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers
Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes,...
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Author: Dina Nayeri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother, and lived in the crumbling shell of...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age
Author: John Lithgow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 104 New York Times Bestseller Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow...
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
Author: Tom Mueller (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can...
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
Author: David E. Hoffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
Turning to Face the East: How Britain Can Prosper in the Asian Century
Author: Liam Byrne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The global crash has dramatically changed the world's balance of power. America, once the world's hyper-power, is in retreat...
Stasiland
Author: Anna Funder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the...
Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
Author: James Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The idea of an exceptional America remains controversial. In this dazzlingly comprehensive collection of essays, some of the nation's...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
Author: Patrick Winn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 348 Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across...
The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power
Author: New York Times Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A celebration of the history-making women of the 116th Congress, who stand as a testament to what power looks and...
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century
Author: Niheer Dasandi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards Only four countries around the...
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists
Author: Nandini Sundar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe...
The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
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Author: Mark Urban Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine...
Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights
Author: Eve Lloyd Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 On June 28 1969, around one o'clock in the morning, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar...