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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.. …

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 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 …

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 …

Tsunami and the Single Girl

Krissy Nicholson

RRP: £9.99

As a free-spirited traveller, Krissy–now almost thirty–needs her life to start taking shape. So how does a wild night on a dance floor in Vietnam land her a sought-after role in Oxfam working in eme …

God and Gold

Walter Russell Mead

RRP: £10.99

Economist Books of the Year, 2007 Financial Times Books of the Year, 2007God and Gold is a brilliantly stimulating and provocative look at why, for over 300 years, the Anglo-Saxon powers have dominate …

A Strange Business

James Hamilton

RRP: £14.99

Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards 2014Longlisted for the Art Book Prize 2014 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct u …

Journals 1952 – 2000

Arthur Schlesinger

RRP: £15.99

Frank, revelatory, suffused with wit and humanity, Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s journals offer an intimate history of post-war America, from his days on Adlai Stevenson’s campaign team to his years in JFK …

Zero-Sum World

Gideon Rachman

RRP: £11.99

The economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has drastically altered the logic of international relations. Globalisation no longer benefits all the world’s superpowers and they face an array of g …

Console Wars

Blake Harris

RRP: £18.99

In 1990 Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But that would all chang …

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