Author: Alan Clark INTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries Michael Howard and...

John Simpson There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson...

Charles Krauthammer From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.A brilliant stylist known...

Shelby Steele The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering...

Joseph Finder Finder's first Nick Heller novel, VANISHED, was published to widespread acclaim. Now Nick Heller returns in an explosive new thriller.When private investigator Nick Heller returns home to Boston...

Timur Vermes Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war....

Curtis Sittenfeld 'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then...

Thomas L Friedman   In Thank You for Being Late , his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and...

Melissa Benn A dramatic, gripping contemporary novel about the dangerous space between family and political life. It’s a story about how decent human beings are turned into something else by...

Bill Clinton President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity...

Samantha Power Now a Netflix biopic, Sergio , with  Narcos  star Wagner Moura playing diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello."The best way to understand today's messy world is to read about...

James Howard Kunstler A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we...