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The Russian capital in its many garbs, its architecture, institutions, people and rulers.

A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow

Simon Morrison

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As in his books on Culloden and Waterloo, O'Keeffe is interested in the consequences of the battle as well as its course.

Trafalgar: Battle & Aftermath

Paul O'Keeffe

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From Carlos the Jackal and Baader-Meinhof to the Iranian Revolution and Israel's Raid on Entebbe in which the commander Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Benjamin) was killed. Burke, an eminent war... read more

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s

Jason Burke

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Informed by his years with Meta.

How to Save the Internet

Nick Clegg

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The author is of course the distinguished Law Lord who presided over the Supreme Court's carefully-argued judgement that Johnson's prorogation of Parliament in 2016 was an impossibility unde... read more

With the Law on Our Side: How the Law Works For Everyone and How We Can Make it Work Better

Brenda Hale

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On the relationship between fact and fiction and his own concept of 'ecstatic truth' - the kind that he believes only art can drive toward.

The Future of Truth

Werner Herzog

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The gathered reportage of one of our greatest science writers, profiling the radical steps being taken by those on the frontlines of catastrophic climate change.

Life on a Little-Known Planet

Elizabeth Kolbert

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A detailed, riveting account of the complex alliances that won WWII, drawing on hundreds of primary sources. As we know from his superb Appeasing Hitler, the genial TB writes with assurance ... read more

Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler

Tim Bouverie

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The author, a scholar of C19th literature at Edinburgh, grew up Romani in the post-Communist Romania of the 1990s. She weaves memoir and travel writing into a wider, potted history of a peop... read more

The Roma: A Travelling History

Madeline Potter

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Cutlers, coopers, watchmakers etc, from the author of The World According to Colour: A Cultural History.

Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades

James Fox

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Besides being an expert in landmine clearance, the author is prodigiously well informed about tees and their habitats. Here, she gives a remarkable exposition of trees as agents in their own... read more

The Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

Harriet Rix

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From 1945 to the present. This is also a defence of the unprecedented progress of the last decades, faltering now.

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

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His mistakes as well as his achievements, and a fascinating post- Brexit look at our history since WW2, in which our leaders still vye for Churchill's mythic mantle to legitimize their polit... read more

Churchill’s Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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Mathilde Carre joined the French Resistance in 1940 but was captured by the Germans a year later and betrayed her network. She survived working as as a double agent and then - possibly - a t... read more

Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal

Roland Philipps

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An astute examination of the bloody and divisive Jacobite Rising of 1745-46 and its legacy.

Culloden: Battle & Aftermath

Paul O'Keeffe

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The author of 'The Sixth Extinction' looks beyond what we have done to what we might do to improve the outlook for our small blue planet.

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert

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Slaveowners were paid compensation to the equivalent of £340 billion from the public purse, which entrenched their power.

The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery

Michael Taylor

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Varoufakis will stir controversy once again with his latest book, a mix of non-fiction and fiction imagining the world in 2025, when things have gone his way: the democratisation of wealth, ... read more

Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

Yanis Varoufakis

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Recent illness has prompted this new book from Snyder, author of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Road to Unfreedom'. Health is not recognised as a human right in the US, but, he argues, what's the use... read more

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity

Timothy Snyder

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Being, at Sandoe's, afficionados of the stale squashed fly, 'indulgence' is not the word that comes to mind. Niche culinary and social history.

The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence

Lizzie Collingham

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A staggering book about how the global oil industry has poluted not just the earth but also democracy.

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Rachel Maddow

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This is an astonishing book that will change our understanding of the world in dizzying ways. Wohlleben's 'wood-wide web' is but a part of the phantasmagoric abundance of fungal life that Sh... read more

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

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WD won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence. Discursive, erudite and observant, he turns now to the story of Colombia's mightiest river. NB Publication of this book has been de... read more

Magdalena: River of Dreams

Wade Davis

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A superb narrative of the 'underside' of the Italian Renaissance: the Genoese and Neapolitans; the women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, engineers, prostitutes, farmers and citizens ... read more

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

Catherine Fletcher

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Wounded: From Battlefield To Blighty, 1914-1918

Emily Mayhew

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