The Making of the Modern Middle East
£12.99A vivid and authoritative account of the Middle East's recent history to the present day, from the BBC’s long-serving correspondent in the region.
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The Man Who Stole the Gods
£20.00In the shattered aftermath of Cambodia’s civil war, temples that had stood for centuries were found ransacked, sacred sculptures hacked from pedestals, towering statues of Hindu gods and priceless relics of the Khmer Empire vanished. At the centre of this vast plunder, British expat Douglas Latchford, whose decades-long obsession fuelled one of the most audacious cultural thefts of modern times. From the Killing Fields to the marble galleries of New York and London and the private collections of the rich and famous, this book unravels a story of power, greed and corruption, and questions what you take from a nation when you steal its past. Drawing on years of investigation and exclusive access to the stories’ key players, Matthew Campbell reveals how the treasures of one of the world’s greatest civilizations were stolen, sold, and finally found.
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This Is Also a Love Story
£20.00‘Deeply moving and necessary’ ANNE ENRIGHT
‘A must-read’ iPAPER
‘Original and heart-warming’ LINDSEY HILSUM
‘Remarkable … the perfect antidote to our times’ CHRISTINA LAMB
From the Orwell Prize-winning author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned comes a powerful account of human resilience, capturing our capacity for love and connection against all odds.
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Lost Boys
£10.99Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an array of bizarre and harmful underground subcultures, collectively known as the manosphere, as men search for new forms of belonging. In ‘Lost Boys’, James Bloodworth delves into these underground worlds and asks where have they come from? Why are so many men susceptible to the sinister beliefs these groups promote? What does the emergence of these communities say about Western society? And what can we do about it? In the course of his journey he meets incels, enlists on a bootcamp for so-called ‘alpha males’, and speaks to modern day Hugh Hefners using social media to broadcast their jet set lifestyles to millions of followers.
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Scam Nation
£16.99‘A gripping take on how fraud and scamming have become part of our everyday lives’ Laura Whateley
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Consumed
£10.99Over the past seventy years, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and other consumer goods makers have harnessed single-use plastics to turbocharge their profits. They’ve poured billions of dollars into convincing us we need disposable diapers, cups, bags, bottles, shampoo in sachets and plastic-packaged ultra-processed foods. We were never clamouring for any of these items, but this shift towards disposability has fundamentally transformed our daily habits. While at first we shaped plastics, somewhere along the way, plastics took over and began shaping us. Like any addiction, our plastic habit has consequences. It is damaging our climate and biodiversity and we are only just starting to understand its effect on our own health. In investigating how we got here, ‘Consumed’ arms us to make better decisions about where we go next.
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How to Save the Amazon
£10.99On 5 June 2022, award-winning journalist Dom Phillips was working on this book, alongside the indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, when they were both shot. They are believed to have been assassinated by one of the criminal networks whose ecological exploitation they were working to expose. As the world becomes more aware of the significance of the Amazon, home to nearly 400 billion trees, working in this vast region has become ever more dangerous for activists and journalists. Fires, land grabs, and the invasion of reserves have all spiked over recent decades, pushing the world’s biggest forest ever closer to a point of no return. A group of expert writers took up his partially completed manuscript, committed to his mission of uncovering the truth about deforestation and searching for solutions.
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How to Defeat the Far Right
£10.99‘A brilliant and challenging book’ GORDON BROWN
From the founder of Britain’s leading antifascist organisation, HOPE not hate, this is an urgent call to resist the forces of extremism on the march in Western societies – and how to go about it.
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London Falling
£22.00Staff Pick!
Mia Says…
Could not put this down. A mesmerising and thrilling glimpse of a city that I didn’t know existed. A rage-inducing account of billionaires in the shadows of London, all told along the thread of one absolutely astonishing and chilling story of a teenage boy caught up in an unbelieavable web of lies. Patrick Radden Keefe is an extraordinary storyteller.
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From the bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.
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Washington Is Burning
£22.00A DEVASTATING ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN MILITARY FOLLY AND POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION BY THE WASHINGTON EDITOR OF HARPER’S MAGAZINE
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A Sicilian Man
£25.00In 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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The Elements of Power
£25.00‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [?] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.’ Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing