The File
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £12.99
In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the …
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Bad Elements
Ian BurumaRRP: £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 …
Confessions of a Mullah Warrior
Masood FarivarMasood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in a then peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Fleeing across the border to Pakistan, Masood entered a …
Too Many Mothers
Roberta TaylorRRP: £7.99
‘I was born in a sideboard.’ So begins Roberta Taylor’s bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It’s Boxing Day, 1956 in E …
Peace Kills
P.J. O'RourkeIn this latest collection of adventures, P. J. O’Rourke casts his mordant eye on America’s recent forays into warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. O’Rourke first travels to Kosovo, where he m …
Peace Kills
P. J. O'Rourke‘A hilarious, no-holds-barred tour of the new world order, from ‘America’s greatest prose comedian’ – Sunday TimesPeace Kills is an eye-opening look at a world much changed since O’Rourke wrote his be …
Playing the Enemy
John CarlinRRP: £12.99
Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of …
The Bible
Karen ArmstrongRRP: £12.99
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years …
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John Stuart Mill
Richard ReevesRRP: £30.00
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 …
The Day of the Barbarians
Alessandro BarberoRRP: £8.99
On August 9, ad 378, outside Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace, the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unexpected flood of refugees from the tribe known as the Goths had arrive …
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Carl von Clausewitz’s On War
Hew StrachanRRP: £8.99
On War by Carl von Clausewitz was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most significant treatises on military strategy ever written, it is still prescribed at various milit …
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Charlie Wilson’s War
George CrileRRP: £8.99
In the last decade, two events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. Ge …
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City of Laughter
Vic GatrellRRP: £19.99
Between 1770 and 1830, London was the world’s largest and richest city, the centre of hectic social ferment and of spectacular sexual liberation. It prompted revolutionary modes of thought, novel sens …
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Clever Girl
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
Brian Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl – the girl of the title – who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for eac …
The Wreck of the Batavia
Simon LeysIn 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived t …
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The Philosophy Steamer
Lesley ChamberlainRRP: £22.50
‘Compelling, laudably unsentimental and deeply significant.’ — Frances Stonar Saunders, GuardianIn 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 220 ‘undesirable’ intellectuals to be deported in prep …
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