The Twins of Auschwitz
The Sunday Times Bestseller The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz. Within thirty minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, while Eva and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man who...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray tackles some of the most contentious issues facing society today with unflinching honesty and a critical eye. Murray delves into the complexities of woke culture, identity politics, and the shifting landscape of societal norms. As he navigates through topics such as sexuality, gender, technology, and race, he questions the often unexamined assumptions that...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today1984
The ultimate dystopian masterpiece. A dystopian masterpiece - the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. The year is 1984. War and revolution have created an unrecognisable world. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is total and The Thought Police ensure no individual thinking is allowed....Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksInheritocracy
Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling books like Butler to the World (27k TCM), Chums (47k TCM) and Posh Boys (17k TCM) The Sunday Times Bestseller! Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where...Paperback$1800Usually:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Broken House
The major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mould of Alone in Berlin and Stoner - the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany. Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt Sunday Times An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private...Paperback$1800Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayIs a River Alive?
From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book— which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings—who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayTechnofeudalism
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world. Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords—replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Platform
In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland's Polynesian Panthers - the movement modelled on the US Black Panther Party but without guns. The Polynesian Panthers was founded in response to the racist treatment of Pacific Islanders in the era of the Dawn Raids. Central to the group was...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCroatia Under Ante Pavelic
Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustase), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941. Pavelic was an extreme Croatian nationalist who believed that the Serbian people were an inferior race—he would preside over a genocide that ultimately killed an estimated 390,000 Serbs during World War...Paperback$5899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayPeak Human
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of Abbasid Baghdad came algebra and modern medicine, and the Dutch Republic furnished us with Europe's greatest artistic movements. As such, each has unique lessons to teach us about the world...Paperback$5900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Wagner Group
This book exposes the history and future of The Wagner Group, Russia's notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before. Using extensive leaks, first-hand accounts, and the byzantine paper trail left in its wake, Jack Margolin traces the Wagner Group from its roots as a battlefield rumour to a private military enterprise tens of thousands...Hardback$5900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMore Everything Forever
The bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise, and limitless growth. Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayFascism and Democracy
Brilliant essays from Orwell's political writing during World War II, released to coincide with Orwell Day on the 21st of January. Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the potential of reform, the meaning of literature and free speech in times of...Paperback$600Usually:$699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Big Brother is Watching You. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania....Paperback$1099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMoneymania
In his new book, the anonymous author of TAXTOPIA takes us behind the scenes of his career as an Economist. MONEYMANIA is an illuminating and often hilarious exposé of the dubious world of the people whose job is to tell us that the world of money can be predicted with almost scientific accuracy — when the truth is that it...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCapital
It is in this third volume that Marx sets out his central thesis that "the basic laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production lead to explosive crises and its ultimate collapse". Here we find not only a sustained economic and social description of capitalism as a system and the bourgeoisie as a class but also a full statement...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHistory and Class Consciousness
History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg Lukács's early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a major impact on all the Marxist debates that followed, introducing key new concepts such as 'totality', 'reification' and 'imputed class consciousness'. This centenary edition, with a new preface by Michael...Paperback$3200Usually:$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Autobiography of Malcolm X
By the time of his tragic murder in 1965, Malcolm X was world famous as the "angriest black man in America". From hustling, cocaine addiction, and armed violence in the ghettos of Harlem, he experienced a dramatic prison conversion that led him to the fervour of the Black Muslims. Speaking out to millions of oppressed blacks, he brought new hope...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid SeptemberThe Queen and Her Presidents
The Crown meets The West Wing in this illuminating history that chronicles the largely unknown story of Queen Elizabeth II’s relationship with thirteen American presidents, from Harry S. Truman to Donald J. Trump. With that, she changed the world. No American or foreign leader has met with as many sitting presidents as Queen Elizabeth II. Her Royal Majesty’s seventy-year reign...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayLittle Blue Dot
In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system – in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pockets. This is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S. government...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Road Map
David Icke's 1998 book The Biggest Secret was dubbed the Rosetta Stone of conspiracy research for connecting the dots that allowed a much bigger picture to be seen. The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, revealed the language codes that allowed Egyptian hieroglyphics to be understood. Now The Road Map presents a massive extension and expansion with the benefit of a...Paperback$7300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Coffin Confessor
Imagine being on your deathbed, consumed by secrets you've long harboured, or carrying unfulfilled wishes that weigh heavily on your mind. In these moments, what if there were someone willing to honour your final requests, someone who speaks for the dead, irrespective of society's rules? Enter Bill Edgar, the Coffin Confessor, a man whose unique and unconventional profession reveals a...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most famous artists and activists. In 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, he tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. A family story and the tale of a nation, Ai Weiwei weaves...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Thinking Machine
The explosive story of the tech giant Nvidia - the producer of the only chip anyone involved in AI wants - and its charismatic, uncompromising, complicated CEO, Jensen Huang. The riveting account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia's charismatic, uncompromising CEO. In June of 2024, spurred...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayLetter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail is an incisive and inspiring piece of writing that remains a touchstone in the history of civil rights and social justice. Composed in 1963 while King was imprisoned for his participation in nonviolent protests against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, the letter is a powerful and eloquent defence of civil disobedience in...Paperback$699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayMutual Aid
One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin remains an inspirational figure in the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned geographer whose seminal critique of the hypothesis of competition promoted by Social Darwinism helped to revolutionise modern evolutionary theory. An admirer of Darwin, he used his observations of life in Siberia as the basis...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Seven Rules of Trust
Trust: like water, like electricity, our society can’t function without it. It’s a treasure, a living thing that can be cultivated and grown. But it can also wither and die, and it is increasingly under threat. From neighbourhoods to nations, we must get serious about trust and act before this precious resource runs out entirely. When Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayI Am Malala
In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to seek an education, Malala Yousafzai defied all odds, emerging stronger than ever. From a valley in Pakistan to the global stage, she became a beacon of peaceful resistance and the youngest Nobel laureate. I Am Malala is an extraordinary...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHope In The Dark
Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit is an inspiring exploration of the power of hope amidst the turbulence of contemporary life. In a world often overshadowed by political unrest, environmental challenges, and social inequalities, Solnit presents a compelling argument for maintaining optimism. Through vivid storytelling and profound insight, she unveils the latent potential of social and political movements, illustrating...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCapital
The forgotten second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories. The forgotten second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid SeptemberBurning Questions
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood. The Sunday Times bestselling collection of funny, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient essays from cultural icon Margaret Atwood. In it, she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How can we live on our planet?...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt delves into the intricate web of human morality, dissecting why seemingly rational people can hold profoundly different beliefs about what is right and wrong. Through an engaging narrative and extensive research, Haidt explores the psychological foundations of our moral differences and offers insight into how these differences shape political, religious, and cultural divides. Why...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid SeptemberGreat Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Why and how will the fourth industrial revolution impact great power politics? Here, Glenn Diesen utilises a neoclassical, global approach to great power politics to assess how far the development of AI, national and localised technological ecosystems and cyber-warfare will affect great power politics in the next century. The reliance of modern economies on technological advances, Diesen argues, also compels...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTyranny of the Minority
An urgent follow-up to the international bestseller How Democracies Die, by two leading democracy experts. With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent new framework for understanding the dangerous times we live in. They draw on a wealth of examples—from the...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
At once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate example of the personal as political. Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world’s greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people. In this sincere and frank self-portrait, she recounts her childhood—marked by the...Paperback$2600Usually:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayChurchill: A Life
The classic, bestselling, official biography of Winston Churchill, back in print for the first time in two decades. By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume – Daily Telegraph Drawing on decades of unprecedented access to Winston Churchill's family and estate, this classic bestseller remains the definitive biography of...Paperback$1800Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayTe Kai a te Rangatira
Te Kai a te RangatiraHardback$7200Elsewhere:$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times "I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I...Hardback$6700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Wizard of the Kremlin
THE TIMES BESTSELLER 'A riveting peek into how power actually works in Russia' David McCloskey, author of Moscow X 'A great novel, casting light on the creatures that crawl and slither behind the Kremlin's walls. Read it' John Sweeney, author of Killer in the Kremlin Soon to be a major motion picture They call him the Wizard of the Kremlin....Paperback$2300Usually:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayWhen the Clock Broke
A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era. The New York Times Bestseller. A Barack Obama Summer Pick. When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump's ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly....Paperback$2400Usually:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayTe Tiriti o Waitangi Relationships
Regardless of upheavals at the highest political level, the narratives and analyses in this book demonstrate that the Treaty relationships built on the ground may continue to develop and persist. This is the third volume by leading scholars and researchers in a series discussing the complexities of te Tiriti o Waitangi issues. Together, this group of essays takes a dynamic...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe American Way of Killing
Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brilliant new work: an incisive investigation into gun violence, America's deadliest and most polarizing crisis. Why, when it comes to lethal violence, is America so different from the rest of the globe? The United States is wealthier, better educated, more technologically sophisticated, and more religious than almost any of its peers in the developed world—all...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-orderA Line in the Sand
A Line in the Sand by James Barr offers a compelling and intricate examination of the British-French rivalry that shaped the modern Middle East. Set against the historical backdrop of the early 20th century, the book meticulously delves into the clandestine agreements and political manoeuvring that redrew the boundaries of a region in turmoil. In 1916, amidst the devastation of...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Nazi Mind
A propulsive narrative history of the motivation and mentality behind the Nazis and their supporters. How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly—often enthusiastically—oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling author Laurence Rees combines history and the...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid SeptemberAbyss
A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and the Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today85 Seconds to Midnight
A warning to humankind from one of the world's greatest physicists. What drives these pages is the guilty conscience of my profession, theoretical physics. My sole aim is to help avert what seems to me to be the unintended, yet scarcely avoidable, end point of the current politics of the governments we have elected—nuclear war. The world is re-arming and...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayLife at the Bottom
Now in a 25th anniversary edition, featuring a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a new postscript from Theodore Dalrymple."A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R's." -Thomas SowellAs a British psychiatrist who treated the poor in a slum hospital and a prison...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe CIA Book Club
A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Economist 'This book reads like a spy novel' Financial Times 'Entertaining and vivid' Observer 'Reads like a thriller' The Sun –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Nord Stream Conspiracy
The explosive inside story of the most daring act of sabotage in modern history—the bombing of the $20 billion Nord Stream Pipeline. Written by the award-winning Chief European Political Correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. 'Totally fascinating... As compelling as a spy thriller'Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Jaw-dropping... a pearl of a story'Rory Carroll 'All the elements of a fictional thriller... I...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayAfter Nations
The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan. – EMMANUELE COCCIA What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future. Until recently, the system of nation-states appeared settled and eternal. Not anymore. As American hegemony unwinds and Western countries slide...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayPower Play
In Power Play, leading game industry expert George E. Osborn reveals how video games—the world's largest entertainment medium—are being used by autocrats, populists, and violent extremists to influence the real world around us. Video games are the world's largest entertainment medium: they are played by billions of people, across all age demographics, and they generate hundreds of billions of dollars...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Unaccountability Machine
When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todaySo You Want to Own Greenland?
An indispensable guide to Greenland why it matters, who covets it and why this wilderness of 56,000 inhabitants could become the next global flashpoint. Greenland is no ordinary island. From its discovery by Norsemen to its contemporary strategic significance, it has been a frontier for human exploration and empire, today emerging as a facilitator of geoeconomic competition. This book delves...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDiscovering Hitler's Führerbunker
The shadow of the Third Reich ended not on the streets of Berlin, but beneath them.Discovering Hitler’s Führerbunker unveils Adolf Hitler’s final refuge, the Führerbunker, deep beneath Berlin. In the labyrinthine depths, Hitler and his inner circle spent the final months of the Second World War. It was here, on 30 April 1945, that Hitler and his new bride, Eva...Paperback$3399Elsewhere:$4199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGaza
In this urgent and compelling book, Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward tell the story of Gaza from its early foundations, across decades of occupation, to the devastation of the ongoing war. Rather than focusing on elites or abstract politics, at the book's heart are ordinary Gazans — students, aid workers, journalists, and teachers — whose first-hand testimonies vividly...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$4299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Ladybird Book About Donald Trump
From THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON comes a new nugget of wisdom in the record-breaking Ladybirds for Grown-Ups series. A Ladybird Book About Donald Trump is a charming introduction to the President of the United States, the important jobs he has to do, and the friends he’s made all over the world. This delightful book is the latest in the series of...Hardback$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Small, Stubborn Town
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - or no fight at all. After all, Voznesensk is a quiet farming town, full of pensioners. But the locals...Paperback$3000Usually:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayI Am Malala
Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world. - J.K. Rowling I Am Malala tells the remarkable true story of a girl who knew she wanted to change the world - and did. Raised in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, Malala was taught to stand up for her beliefs. When terrorists took control of her region...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayWe Are Not Numbers
A moving, immersive, and humanising essay collection charting the daily lives, struggles, and dreams of young people in Gaza. THE NUMBER 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE IRISH BESTSELLER 'Meaningful and impactful ... A vital read ... Tell all your friends' — BRITISH VOGUE 'A powerful collection' — SERVICE 95, founded by Dua Lipa 'These brilliant young people have embraced writing...Hardback$2800Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayMoscow Underground
Moscow, 1934. Moscow's glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia's leaders want to build a glorious Soviet capital, what holds them in a fatal grip is history: old mud and bones....Paperback$3100Usually:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayRaise Your Soul
An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe. Eleni put an arm around him and said, "Come, come, life is ahead of us. Raise your soul now. We have much to do." This is a book about how the great forces of history...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayAustralia
From convict colony to great democracy Australia is one of the world's great success stories: a land long hidden from outsiders, chosen as a convict dumping ground, where—since 1788—people from many backgrounds have built one of the most free, fair, and prosperous countries on earth. By the standards of a harsher time, the early governors tried to respect the original...Hardback$4400Usually:$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Diary of a Secret Tory MP
The long-awaited diary from Whitehall’s most scandalous MP… From Brexit to Covid, parties to pig culling, the Conservative government has lurched from crisis to crisis. With a front-row seat on the, erm, backbenches, the Secret Tory MP has picked up on all the petty rivalries, bad decision-making and scandalous affairs that Whitehall has to offer. And he’s got no qualms...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back into print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram Hunt. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was, in fact, a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist...Paperback$2800Usually:$3400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayNarconomics
What big business has taught the drug lords. Everything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they've learnt from big business—brand value and franchising from McDonald's, supply chain management from Walmart, diversification from Coca-Cola. Whether it's human resourcing, R&D, corporate social responsibility, off-shoring, problems with e-commerce, or troublesome changes in legislation, the drug lords face the same strategic concerns as...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayFreedom Is A Constant Struggle
From the author of Women, Race and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts. In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today2024
Can America survive Donald Trump? Three award-winning Washington Post reporters offer the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in US history. "The whole world was against me, and I won," said Donald Trump in an exclusive interview, ten days before his second inauguration. Nearly four years after Trump's turbulent presidency concluded in a violent attempt...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayPrisoners of Geography The Quiz Book
Tim Marshall’s bestselling series of geopolitical explainers have been a runaway success. Breaking down global events with sharp insights and wit, he has made complex ideas accessible to millions around the globe. Now readers have a chance to test their world knowledge, with Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book. Covering every area of the globe and containing a mix of...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$3099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayAbundance
The real threat to liberal democracy isn't autocrats—it's the lack of effective action by progressives. In Abundance, veteran journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson reveal the structural, economic, and political forces that have led to America, and much of the liberal world, of today: where scarcity and preservation drive the agenda, and we have forgotten how to deliver on big...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayBecoming
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir from the First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African-American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and...Hardback$5000Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Palace Letters
A political betrayal. A constitutional crisis. A hidden correspondence. Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. After a second election victory in May 1974, when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam's unexpected and deeply...Paperback$3200Usually:$4100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Warmth of Other Suns
The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow South, told through the journeys of three remarkable individuals. From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson gives us this definitive, vividly dramatic account of how these journeys unfolded....Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayWords for My Comrades
Before his murder at twenty-five, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering artistic heights as the pre-eminent storyteller of the 90s, building, in the process, one of the most iconic public personas of the last half-century. He recorded several platinum-selling albums, starred in major films, and became an activist and political hero known the world over. In this cultural history and brilliantly...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Bunker in Kyiv
A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over Jerusalem On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to the sound of explosions and gunfire as Russian forces attempted to seize Hostomel Airport. It marked the beginning of the first land war in Europe since World War II. Under the leadership of the charismatic Volodymyr...Paperback$3200Usually:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Lion House
Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its throat. From the palaces...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayBaltic
The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years. These nine borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggression; they are also a factory of ideas for how to revive Europe. Shaped by the past one hundred years, each Baltic country offers lessons in adaptability, hope, and prosperity in an era of instability. Innovation...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Technological Republic
From one of tech's boldest thinkers and his longtime deputy, this is a sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley and a treatise on how the West has slid into a culture of complacency—even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats. Silicon Valley has lost its way. From the founding of the American republic through much of the twentieth...Hardback$4800Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayTrue Believer
This is seriously good… the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it – so read it while you can! — Lee Child A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come. — Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan...Paperback$2400Usually:$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayPhilip and Alexander
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