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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...

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  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 . . ....

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