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Transatlantic history seen through the other end of the telescope: the experience of diplomats, slaves, traders of - and in - the Old World.

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe ...

Caroline Dodds Pennock

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Stone's troubling account shows how the genocide of Jews took place in many parts of Europe, the result of enthusiastic collaboration (at least in some sections of government or citizens) wi... read more

The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

Dan Stone

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The highways and byways of the Good Friday Agreement - by a distinguished journalist who spent several decades covering the troubled state of Northern Ireland.

Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Pea ...

Peter Taylor

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The town is Krakowiec, forty miles from Lviv. In a powerful combination of memoir, family history and scholarship, Wasserstein creates a lens through which the particular becomes exemplar.

A Small Town in Ukraine: the Place We Came From, the Place We Came Bac ...

Bernard Wasserstein

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Reframes the Silk Road as a diplomatic route, not simply a commercial thoroughfare, especially during the late Tang and Five Dynasties period. Draws on documents from Dunhuang.

The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Making of the Silk Road ...

Xin Wen

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£42.00

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From 2009-2014 the author was the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security.

And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy ...

Catherine Ashton

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This brilliant expos? of 'consultancy' will not be welcome at McKinsey, KPMG, Bain, Ey, etc.

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infan ...

Mariana Mazzucato

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A valuable reminder that humans have always been migrants, and that we have profited from that as a race.

Migrants: The Story of Us All

Sam Miller

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A selection of Orwell's essays in a one of Penguin's small-format clothbound classics.

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

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An exposition of the inequalities in US society and a vision of how reasonable living standards might be achieved.

It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism

Bernie Sanders

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A mix of memoir and analysis that recognises the challenges facing us now and salutes the social progress of the last five decades.

The State of Us: The Good News and the Bad News About Our Society ...

Jon Snow

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An account of the shocking evacuation of 2021 and some of its consequences - by two former soldiers who served in Afghanistan.

Escape From Kabul: The Inside Story

Levison Wood

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The Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times argues that although the relationship between capitalism and democracy is now fraught with problems, separating them would be calamitou... read more

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Martin Wolf

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An intertwining of very different lives in contemporary Nigeria. A second novel from the author of Stay With Me.

A Spell of Good Things

Ayobami Adebayo

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A Kurdish novel about a fighter, released from jail, looking for his young son. Fable and metaphor relieve the war-torn framework.

The Last Pomegranate Tree

Bachtyar Ali

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From the author of the remarkable I Will Never See the World Again, a coming-of-age story set in present-day Istanbul.

Lady Life: A Novel

Ahmet Altan

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A superb collection, featuring - in no particular order - a witch, a snail and Martha Gellhorn.

Old Babes In The Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood

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Pitches the reader from the quiet observations of a retired Irish policeman into the shadows of his past, his family and youth. About experience, memory and what we manage to live with.

Old God’s Time

Sebastian Barry

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An office worker leads a 'normal' life but hankers for something bigger, better. Time passes, and the hankering becomes persistent, chronic, urgent...

Unfinished Business

Michael Bracewell

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The fraught symbiosis of a billionaire and a group of guerrilla gardeners. A skilful and thrilling novel from the author of The Luminaries that interweaves intentions and consequences.

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

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A respectable housewife begins to keep a diary in post-war Rome and finds her voice. A new translation of a 1950's classic.

Forbidden Notebook

Alba de Cespedes

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Five stories - from a young artist and a deserting soldier to an old man reminiscing beneath a lime tree - all interwoven by the common threads of war, memory and German history.

German Fantasia

Philippe Claudel

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Obsession and violence, high school kids and a serial killer. BEE is on familiar nasty form.

The Shards

Bret Easton Ellis

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New York, 1966: a 17-year-old school dropout living in a dingy apartment goes to work as Andy Warhol's typist. Stylish and funny.

Nothing Special

Nicole Flattery

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Indian family drama revolving around an ambitious and bright but easily distracted daughter who hasn't yet heard that her father has died. Fraught, lyrical, set against the backdrop of relig... read more

The Illuminated

Anindita Ghose

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A prelapsarian tale about a haven of racially integrated citizens, based on a real island off the coast of Maine which became - for a while - an exotic utopia in the late C18th.

This Other Eden

Paul Harding

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In a remote Austrian valley during WW1, a woman tries to provide for her family after her husband is drafted into the army. Based on the author's own family history. Powerful, succinct.

Last House Before the Mountain

Monika Helfer

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His quiet life in Sarajevo shattered by WW1, a young man and his lover escape the trenches and flee eastwards to Shanghai.

The World and All That It Holds

Aleksandar Hemon

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A tale of lockdown and London, but also a deeper sense of time and place: the silty, layered histories of the city. Much anticipated.

To Battersea Park

Philip Hensher

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A blood pact is sealed between four boys and, years later, mysteries and violence unfold. Set on a Trinidadian farm in the 1940s.

Hungry Ghosts

Kevin Jared Hosein

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Strange and serene novel from the great Hungarian writer: for centuries the grandson of Prince Genji has been searching for a mythical garden and now wanders the grounds of an ancient Kyoto ... read more

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A Riv ...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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Black comedy from the fine Ukrainian novelist, author of Death and the Penguin, Grey Bees and others.

Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv

Andrei Kurkov

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Irreverent, witty and often barmy novel about how people make sense of war. Begins in 1940 with a young woman running naked down the boulevard du Montparnasse.

Mirror of our Sorrows

Pierre Lemaitre

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The campus novel reimagined: two students fall in love at a Chinese Religious Training Centre, one a Buddhist, the other a Daoist.

Heart Sutra

Yan Lianke

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Imagines the lives of two great C15th mystics, Margery Kempe and Mother Julian of Norwich.

For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain

Victoria MacKenzie

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An attractive hardback edition.

Wild Places: Selected Stories

Katherine Mansfield

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