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A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Economist
'This book reads like a spy novel' FINANICAL TIMES
'Entertaining and vivid' OBSERVER
'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN
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The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
‘The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.’ EMMANUELE COCCIA
What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future.
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
‘Has the power to change the way you look at the world’ Steven Bartlett
‘The heir to Oliver Sacks’ David Baddiel
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024
AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH
Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger.
‘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
‘Ingenious? a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning’ Daily Telegraph
Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves. While sabre-toothed tigers were their biggest night-time worry, today it’s stress and social media that keep us awake, but the solutions are the same, and sleep therapist Dr Merijn van de Laar offers understanding and advice to have you sleeping better within weeks.
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
MEL ROBBINS: ‘This book will push you to rethink everything’
DR RANGAN CHATTERJEE: ‘An eye-opening, emotional call to action’
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A Times and Waterstones Book of the Year
‘A superb work of history’ JAMES HOLLAND
‘A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history’ DAN SNOW
A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION
A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones
‘A must-read ? magnificent’ DAILY TELEGRAPH *****
‘Beautiful and moving’ ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER
‘A historically insightful read’Financial Times
‘A wry, rollicking, and provocative history’ Michael Taylor, author of The Interest
‘A thought-provoking analysis of Africa’s relationship with economic imperialism’ Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It’s A Continent
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS
‘I’m not sure I’ve ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it’s also a ‘memoir of miraculous survival’. I can’t recommend it enough’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ
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