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How to Be a Refugee
Simon May
Read more ▸ Order ▸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
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸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
Read more ▸ Order ▸Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019
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UnPresidented
Jon Sopel
Read more ▸ Order ▸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
Read more ▸ Order ▸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
Read more ▸ Order ▸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
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸‘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
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸‘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
Read more ▸ Order ▸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
Read more ▸ Order ▸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
Read more ▸ Order ▸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
Read more ▸ Order ▸In 1942 Franci Rabinek Epstein, a young Jewish woman, was imprisoned in Terezin, a concentration...
