Spying and the Crown

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A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021’Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.’ Ben Macintyre, The Times’A fascinating history of royal espionage.’ Su …

Chief of Staff

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BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect’Fascinating and instructive… his decency and pragmatism shine through.’ The Times’Candid, valuable and insightful.’ ObserverSince the EU referendum …

How To Stage A Coup

‘A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft… Fascinating’ Jonathan Rugman’Rich in anecdote and detail.’ The TimesToday’s world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on th …

False Prophets

‘Fascinating’ Guardian, ‘Book of the Day”A truly masterly book… A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.’ Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Bri …

In the Camps

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A revelatory account of what is really happening to China’s Uyghurs’Intimate, sombre, and damning… compelling.’ Financial Times’Chilling… Horrifying.’ Spectator’Invaluable.’ TelegraphIn China’s va …

The Secret Royals

A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021’Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.’ Ben Macintyre, The Times’A fascinating history of royal espionage.’ Su …

The Secret Royals

A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021’Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.’ Ben Macintyre, The Times’A fascinating history of royal espionage.’ Su …

The Great Imperial Hangover

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‘An exceptional account.’ Prospect’Enlightening.’ SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn’t mean we don’t feel their presence rumbling through history. …

Hard Choices

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After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end. Disastrous foreign wars, global recession, the meteoric rise of China and In …

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

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When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1 …

Apocalypse How?

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‘Entertaining and insightful’ — Evening Standard’One of the most important books of the year… Compelling’ Jamie Bartlett, Literary Review’Timely’ — New StatesmanAs the world becomes better connect …

The Secret Cold War

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The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn’t end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to pl …

The Protest Years

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women’s rights, Abori …

Winter Is Coming

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For readers of Putin’s People by Catherine Belton comes the stunning story of Russia’s slide back into a dictatorship led by Vladimir Putin – and how the world is now paying the price. ‘Brave, trencha …

Deception: Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy

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Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also r …