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Eleni put an arm around him and said: ‘Come, come, life is ahead of us. Raise your soul now. We have much to do’. This is a book about how the great forces of history shape us – and how world-famous political activist Yanis Varoufakis was inspired by the resilience and the courage of his family, from his mother Eleni and grandmothers Anna and Trisevgeni, to his partner Danae. It is both an intimate portrait of a political awakening and a dramatic sweep through Greece’s history of post-colonial independence, Nazi occupation, communist partisan resistance, Cold War fracture, civil war, fascist dictatorship, socialist revival and tumultuous present-day economic collapse.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER
A Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times
‘This isn’t a book; it’s a case for revolution’ CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES
‘A damning cannonball of truth through the York ramparts’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Surely has a claim to the title of book of the year, for its seismic impact’ JANINE GIBSON, FINANCIAL TIMES
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Babylon often appears more myth than history. Purportedly the site of the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel, its infamous presence in the Bible has made it a byword for sinful decadence. But Babylon was a real place teeming with life, a bustling mega-city on the Euphrates where schoolteachers, artisans, priests, slaves, prostitutes and soldiers rubbed shoulders in maze-like streets and busy marketplaces. The city was home to some extraordinary rulers, from Hammurabi the great lawgiver to Nebuchadnezzar II, the conqueror-king, under whose reign the city glistened in gold and lapis lazuli. In this book, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones brings the city vividly to life, tracing its foundation through to its world domination, and subsequent decline, fall and ruin into dust.
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‘Master of Lies’ tells the extraordinary untold story of Anthony Blunt’s life as a spy. Based on extensive research into newly released files he is revealed as not simply ‘the fourth man’, but the most dangerous spy of the twentieth century. During the war, as the fate of the world hung in the balance, Blunt’s intelligence was being fed straight on to the desks of Hitler, Stalin and Churchill. His hand was secretly guiding our collective fate and his treason led to the deaths of tens of thousands. He casts a shadow which looms large to this day. The official narrative is that Blunt was the least of the Cambridge spies – and yet he was the one who got away with it. While the rest drank themselves to death in dingy Moscow flats, Blunt revelled in his brilliant career as an art historian, Surveyor of the Queen’s pictures and Knight of the Realm.
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From the Sunday Times number 1 bestselling royal biographer comes an intimate and revealing portrait of Elizabeth II – daughter, wife, mother and queen.
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Antonia Senior has done that rare thing, written an account of the Cambridge Five with an historian’s fidelity to fact and a novelist’s eye for character. Her meticulous research and elegant writing bring to life the story of class-conscious Englishmen whose youthful embrace of Communism led to the 20th century’s most audacious spy network. It’s a spellbinding tale of espionage, friendship, and betrayal.
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The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, and to rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biographies invite us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than those by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of Rome and power, in the early 2nd century AD. That Rome lives more vividly in people’s imagination than any other ancient empire owes an inordinate amount to Suetonius. Now award-winning author and translator Tom Holland brings us even closer with this translation. Giving a deeper understanding of the personal lives of Rome’s first emperors, and of how they swayed the fates of millions, ‘The Lives of the Caesars’ provides an immersive experience of a time and culture at once familiar and utterly alien to our own.
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From the master storyteller behind 2023’s critically acclaimed KILLING THATCHER
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The compelling story of the only German-Jewish translator to work with the psychiatrists in Nuremberg prison
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Discover a story 400 years in the making – the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the 16th century. Born into the English Wars of the Roses, educated in the European Renaissance, enthralled by the Age of Exploration and ultimately destroyed by Henry VIII, Thomas More is one of the most famous – or notorious – figures in English history. Is he a saintly scholar, the visionary author of ‘Utopia’ and an inspiration for statesmen, socialists and intellectuals even today? Or is he the stubborn zealot famously portrayed in Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’?
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Drawing on their unrivalled access throughout the Labour party, the Times and Sunday Times investigative duo behind ‘Left Out’ now present the inside story of Labour’s transformation and general election under Starmer. This is the definitive telling of a momentous time for the party, focusing on Starmer’s relentless and single-minded pursuit of power and on the hidden turmoil as he expunged opponents and attempted to unite his party in the face of searingly divisive events. Richly peopled with all of the major figures of Labour present and past, and revealing who actually wields power in the party today, this is a must-read, warts-and-all picture of how Labour was ruthlessly transformed, how Starmer won Number 10 and who Britain’s government really is.
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The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history.
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Returning to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War Fritz Bauer – a gay Jewish lawyer and outspoken critic of Hitler – was determined to reclaim the Germany he had once loved. But he soon saw that the perpetrators of the Holocaust had largely got away with their crimes. Top Nazi officers – mass-murders and cruel sadists – had been given plum jobs at major German companies; held prestigious offices in top universities; were in positions of power as lawyers, judges and political advisors. The war was over and many were keen to forget and move on. Thus began Bauer’s dogged fight for justice and a reckoning with the past. Drawing on recently released CIA files, unpublished family papers and secret diaries, this is the story of one man’s battle to bring down the perpetrators of the greatest crime in human history, and to make sure the world never forgets what happened.
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A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year
‘James comes alive in full flamboyance ? Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry of a tumultuous reign’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Brings the backbiting and power struggles of the Jacobean court to life with wit and vigour’ OBSERVER
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In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The maxi-processo saw 471 men and 4 women take the stand, accused of kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and many thousands of murders. Sitting in the galley was Leonardo Sciascia. One of the greatest European writers of the twentieth century, he had published the first Mafia novel, ‘The Day of the Owl’, and was widely seen by Italians as a true moral figure in a country where corruption had seeped into every corner of public and private life. This is the story of Sciascia’s life against the rise of the Mafia and the devastating struggle that ensued for Italy’s soul.
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Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador, Henry Wotton, the man James I sent to Venice in 1604 to restore Anglo-Venetian relations. It recounts his back-story then follows his daily life in diplomacy, poised between tedium and crisis – a life endlessly theatrical.
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