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How to Be a Refugee
Simon May
One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging
The most familiar fate of Jews living in Hitler’s...
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The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough
Hugo Vickers
One of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled and...
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The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984
Dorian Lynskey
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political... -
UnPresidented
Jon Sopel
Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others
Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign...
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May at 10
Anthony Seldon
Theresa May has presided over the most dramatic and historic peacetime premiership for a century....
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Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
James Comey
James Comey, former FBI Director and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his...
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Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life
Alex Christofi
‘A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography’ – Douglas Smith, author of...
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Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
Professor Richard Bradford
‘My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates,...
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Francis Bacon: Revelations
Mark Stevens
Francis Bacon flung open the twentieth-century closet. By day he exposed the secrets of a...
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Motherwell: A Girlhood
Deborah Orr
MOTHERWELL is a sharp, candid and often humorous memoir about the long shadow that can...
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Kim and Jim: Philby and Angleton, Friends and Enemies in the Cold War
Michael Holzman
Kim Philby’s life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of...
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Franci’s War
Franci Rabinek Epstein
In 1942 Franci Rabinek Epstein, a young Jewish woman, was imprisoned in Terezin, a concentration...