Keggie Carew Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits...

Carlo Alberto Brioschi From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world. In A Short History ,...

Christopher Hill In the plays and popular folklore of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are many expressions of liberty against the law. Taking this literary theme as his starting point,...

Kajsa Norman Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When...

Tim Ross and Tom McTague On 18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election. With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn’s divided...

Christopher Phillips An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting...

Robert Kolker New York Times BestsellerSoon to be a Netflix film.The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island...

Amy Knight Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In...

Edward Hallett Carr “E. H. Carr’s History of Soviet Russia holds a unique position in the vast literature on Bolshevism and Soviet Russia. No other work on this subject comparable...

Martha Gellhorn First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil,...

Michael Byrne London, December 1916. In the middle of the world's most deadly war, a political coup grips Westminster. The carnage of the Somme, the failure of the Dardanelles campaign,...

Jay Solomon From the  Wall Street Journal  reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long...