Chocolate - `the food of the Gods' - has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of...
'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino'This is essential reading' Stylist...
A new book on the state of the world today -- from one of the most respected and revered political commentators aliveNoam Chomsky: philosopher, political...
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The apparent glamour of the Indian Raj continues to fascinate long after the British quit the subcontinent. But along with the beauty of the Indian...
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing, my sense of playful versatility, different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns, the sharp-eyed...
An indispensable guide to your right to protest'A lawyer in your pocket' - The Secret BarristerIn this handbook, campaigning lawyer Christian Weaver brings together everything...
'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017 A Financial Times Best Book of 2017'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan,...
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of...
`I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just...
I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison, Eva Braun, 1945. Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a...
'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter `She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know...
This is the story of what happened next. Ladies Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six pioneers -...
When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award: this is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture by a Pulitzer-prize winning...
Tells about writers and their families. This book explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families....
'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this...
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to...
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