Frankly
£28.00The much anticipated memoir from Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first female and longest serving First Minister.
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All the Worst Humans
£10.99After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry that’s made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what he’s been up to for the past 20 years – and it isn’t pretty. Elwood has worked for a murderer’s row of clients, including Gaddafi, Assad, and the government of Qatar – namely, the bad guys. In this book, Elwood unveils how the PR business works, and how the truth gets made, spun, and sold to the public – not shying away from the gritty details of his unlikely career. This is a piercing look into the corridors of money, power, politics, and control, all told in Elwood’s disarmingly funny and entertaining voice.
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How Not to Be a Political Wife
£20.00‘You think you’ve married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.’
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Patriot
£10.99Alexei Navalny began writing ‘Patriot’ shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted – and will come. In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.
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The Spy in the Archive
£25.00The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.
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SAS Great Escapes Four
£22.00‘SAS Great Escapes Four’ recounts how soldiers of the world’s most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out some of the most daring escapes of World War Two. Ranging from the infamous desert campaign of 1944 to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains, these inspirational narratives include the tale of three Captains escaping an Italian Prisoner of War Camp in 1943; a perilous escape across Europe aided by the Resistance networks of Holland, Belgium; and a death-defying return to Britain via boat, tunnel and train. Each account plunges the reader into the escapees’ experiences – sharing the most terrifying yet astounding moments of their lives.
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My family and other spies
£22.00All families have secrets. But Alistair Wood’s family have more than most. He grew up within the four (very high) walls of SIS’s specialist training camp, surrounded by the most senior and colourful characters in the Service’s history. His mother was one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind enemy lines in Berlin. And his father, an ostensibly heroic humanitarian who died ‘in the field’ in Bosnia at 82, had in fact led a highly secret double life since his summary (and still classified) expulsion from the Service forty years earlier.
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On leadership
£10.99Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time he came to understand that there are certain key characteristics of successful government that he wished he had known about when he started.
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How I came to know fish
£5.99‘How I Came To Know Fish’ is Ota Pavel’s magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek – the two finest fisherman in the world – he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country.
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A moment of war
£5.99Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain’s civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. Imprisoned and almost executed by his own side, he eventually joined the International Brigade. This is the story of his experiences as a Republican soldier, fighting for the losing side in a doomed war.
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Failed state
£10.99In Failed State, one of Britain’s leading policy experts, Sam Freedman, explores the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.
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Ungovernable
£25.00The first insider account of life as a chief whip inside Westminster, from MP Simon Hart, who has served under Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.