Nick Clegg 'Compelling' Ian McEwan 'Engrossing' Alan Johnson 'Essential' Robert Peston 'Important' Shirley Williams*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united...

Shadi Hamid In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics,...

David Ohana This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to...

Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibit...

Edited by James B South Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy). Though the show already attracted much...

Bat Ye'or UNDERSTANDING DHIMMITUDE brings together for the first time twenty-one talks and lectures in which Bat Ye'or explains in layman's terms the essential concepts from her studies, the fruit...

Bat Ye'or In this study of the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule (the dhimmis), Bat Ye’or examines various religious and historical sources, using...

Steven Lee Myers In this account of Vladimir Putinâ€s rise from obscurity to power, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief explains how the Russian leader established his popularity...

Joseph Grimond January 1, 1963 by Hollis and Carter

Marc Morris An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days...

AJP Taylor One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this...

Nikolaos Van Dam Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist...