Mourid Barghouti Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament.Barred from his homeland after...

Michael Doran“Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review) - a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran Shelf wear to dust jacket, bookseller's pencil marks. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday. January 1, 2007 by Bloomsbury

Robert HarrisIMPERIUMA CAUTIONARY TALE OF CICERO, THE GREATEST ORATOR OF ALL TIME, AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN ROME.When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator,...

Erik Larson   The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning...

Jeffrey R Collins Thomas Hobbes and John Locke sit together in the canon of political thought but are rarely treated in common historical accounts. This book narrates their intertwined careers...

Jody Wilson-Raybould A compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generationJody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader....

Srinath Raghavan The gripping story of Indira Gandhi’s premiership—and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi’s ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she...

Massimo Piattelli PalmariniThis highly enjoyable read covers provocative recent discoveries in the study of the mind. Demonstrates that everyone is prone to certain "cognitive" illusions or biases in thinking which...

Carmen Bin LadinOsama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of...

Thomas SowellThomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in AmericaIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that...

Christopher ClarkWinner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role...