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Genre: Current Affairs, Politics & Economics

Finest and Darkest Hours

Kevin Jefferys

RRP: £20.00

‘This survey of British political crises is invaluable for anyone concerned with politics today, and it reinforces George Santayana’s dictum that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.. …

Bad Elements

Ian Buruma

RRP: £9.99

Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politburo or activists like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a emocratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be fund amid the …

Poisoned Planet

Julian Cribb

RRP: £12.99

We want things to be cheap, convenient and useful. Our food arrives contaminated with pesticides and wastes, wrapped in plastic made of hormone-disrupting chemicals. We bathe and dress our children in …

The Stalking of Julia Gillard

Kerry-Anne Walsh

RRP: £8.99

‘Don’t write crap. Can’t be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.’ Julia GillardWhen Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 …

Walking Free

Dr Munjed Al Muderis

RRP: £12.99

Dr Munjed Al Muderis grew up in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s reign. He went to school with Saddam’s sons, then started his medical training at Basra University just as the Iran-Iraq War began. One day …

The Abolition Of Liberty

Peter Hitchens

RRP: £10.99

‘It’s fair to say that Peter Hitchens remains one of the most misrepresented figures in the British media… Hitchens is in reality one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent commentators on li …

The Unravelling

Emma Sky

RRP: £12.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for voluntee …

The Spy Catchers

David Horner

For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia’s domestic intelligence organisation …

The Interior Circuit

Francisco Goldman

RRP: £9.99

The Interior Circuit is Goldman’s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico C …

Where the Truth Lies

Julia Hobsbawm

RRP: £12.99

The relationship between the serious news media and the truth is under scrutiny as never before. In recent years the BBC and the New York Times have been knocked sideways by scandals alleging exaggera …

The Internet is Not the Answer

Andrew Keen

RRP: £10.99

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of the …

Bring on the Apocalypse

George Monbiot

RRP: £8.99

‘A dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people… I never miss reading him.’ — Naomi KleinIn these incendiary essays, George Monbiot tears apart the fictions of religious conservativ …

Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret

Paul Gannon

RRP: £14.99

This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using declassified information, Paul Gannon gives us a gripping account of the invention of the world’s first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secre …

For the Sake of Argument

Christopher Hitchens

RRP: £12.99

The test of this kind of book is for the reader to be able to open it anywhere and be drawn into the argument; it’s a test that Hitchens passes time and time again… He can be devilishly funny, but h …

Prepared for the Worst

Christopher Hitchens

RRP: £25.00

‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ — Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as hav …

The Social Entrepreneur

Andrew Mawson

RRP: £14.99

When Andrew Mawson arrived in Bromley-by-Bow in the east end of London, in the 1980s, it was in a state of social, economic and material disrepair. Living there, getting to know the residents and inst …

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