The CIA book club
£25.00‘Entertaining and vivid? This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment’ OBSERVER
The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
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A very private school
£10.99THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year
‘Shocking and moving’ Guardian
‘Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ The Times
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Why we’re getting poorer
£22.00An insider’s guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us.
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Cuckooland
£10.99‘Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘If Orwell were with us today, he’d be writing books like this’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
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Queen James
£25.00‘Books like this don’t come along very often. Told with Gareth Russell’s characteristic verve and exquisite eye for detail, it is a story so compelling and surprising that it feels as if it has been hiding in plain sight for 400 years’ TRACY BORMAN
‘A warts and all story told with compassion’ PHILIPPA GREGORY
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To the city
£12.99‘An enthralling guide to one of the world’s great cities – that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul’ PETER FRANKOPAN
‘A love letter to this ancient capital’ THE TIMES
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Can feminism be African?
£22.00What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey?
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Looking at women, looking at war
£20.00WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
‘This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism’ Philippa Gregory
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Hardy women
£12.99A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones
‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’
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Out
£30.00The hotly anticipated final book of bestselling author Tim Shipman’s Brexit quartet. The Johnson Years to Rishi Sunak
‘Magnificent? Pacy and packed with delicious details? Shipman puts you in the room? His analysis is sharp and full of insight? For those seeking a moment-by-moment insider history it will not be topped’ FT
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Unfortunately, she was a nymphomaniac
£22.00‘Pacy, witty and authoritative’ Jonathan Freedland
‘In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern? a powerful and important book’ Daily Telegraph
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