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Gavin Barwell
Chief of Staff: An Insider’s Account of Downing Street’s Most Turbulent YearsIn her darkest hour, following the disastrous 2...In her darkest hour, following the disastrous 2017 election, Theresa May turned to Gavin Barwell to help restore her battered authority. He would become her chief of staff for the next two years - ... -
Anna Reid
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of UkraineFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders...Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early nineteenth century, i... -
Philip Ball
The Water KingdomSelected as a Book of the Year by The Times and...Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ... -
Alex Renton
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of SlaveryWhen British Caribbean slavery was abolished ac...When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were pai... -
Alice Roberts
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in BritainFunerary rituals show us what people thought ab...Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearr... -
Joshua Levine
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion PictureIn 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more th...In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. The ... -
Ian Stewart
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of MathematicsMany people think mathematics is useless. They'...Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed £208 billion to the economy in a single year -- t... -
Monica Macias
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My IdentityThe extraordinary true story of a West African ...The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to... -
Suzanne Fagence Cooper
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William MorrisWilliam Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, he...William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us to... -
Robert Twigger
36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things TooRobert Twigger, poet, artist and travel author,...Robert Twigger, poet, artist and travel author, is a lover of uninhabited islands. A lifelong passion for the Lake District led him to embark on a mission to visit all 36 islands of the region - so... -
Don Paterson
Toy Fights: A BoyhoodThis is a book about family, money and music bu...This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insani... -
John Niven
O BrotherJohn Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, ...John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle against the world, he took his own life at t...
