Strange Blooms

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In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son w …

My Crazy Century

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More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma’s generation. Klíma’s story be …

My Crazy Century

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Spanning six decades that included war, totalitarianism, censorship, and the fight for democracy, My Crazy Century reflects on Ivan Klíma’s remarkable life while also looking at this critical period o …

Knowing Mandela

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As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid regime, John Carlin (‘one of the great post-apartheid chroniclers’ Financial Times) was th …

Gaddafi's Harem

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Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he was making the following week. Thi …

Here I Am

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Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world’s most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Ci …

After Words

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The speeches collected in After Words, virtuosic in their scale and range of subjects, are remarkably the work of one eye and one mind: that of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. The speec …

Marx's Das Kapital

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‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,’ wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of the new capitalist worl …

Barack Obama

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In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama’s beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the f …

The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

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Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil

Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

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‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …

Hitch 22

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Praise for Hitch-22:’Christopher Hitchens is one of the great conversationalists of our age and his wit, style and erudition are brilliantly deployed in this glittering autobiography. Hitch-22 sparkle …

John Stuart Mill

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A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and on …

Voltaire in Exile

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In 1753, Voltaire – playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe – was forced into exile by King Louis XV, where he would remain for the last 25 years of his life. This p …

Fortune’s Daughters

The story of the three Jerome sisters is one of love, glamour and money in equal measure. Their father, Leonard, was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife, Clara Hall, was as extravag …