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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... -
30-Second Feminism
Jess McCabe
Feminism is a global movement, developing with each cut and thrust of history to form...
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Scientifica Historica
Brian Clegg
Scientifica Historica is an illustrated, accessible review of those books that marked the development of...
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The Dictatorship Syndrome
Alaa Al Aswany
The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian...
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German Jerusalem
Thomas Sparr
In the 1920s, before the establishment of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in...
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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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Black Wave
Kim Ghattas
Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
A timely and unprecedented examination...
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A Scheme of Heaven
Alexander Boxer
Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today – but...
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More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
Philip Coggan
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum...
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The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi
Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the...
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The Language of Thieves
Martin Puchner
The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History
Since the Middle Ages, vagrants and thieves...
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Square Haunting
Francesca Wade
Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
‘I like this London life . . ....