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How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah of Iran and change the world?Why did Bin Laden attack the USA - and why did the USA destroy Saddam?How did Britain and France carve up the Middle East - and why did the Kurds never get their own state?THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF TODAY'S MIDDLE EA...

From the bestselling author of Guns, Germs and Steel, an exploration of the influence of leaders in politics, business, sport and religionWe often read history as the biographies of 'great men' who shaped the world. But are leaders, whichever field they are in, really that influential? Should CEOs b...

How does a democracy die?What can we do to save our own?What lessons does history teach us?In the twenty-first century democracy is threatened like never before.Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Harvar...

Why politics the five traps of the modern world & how to escape them

'A totally unprecedented, behind the scenes portrait of Putin's Russia at war. Astonishing. A major work' ANTONY BEEVORPutin's Russia silences its citizens, targets foreign journalists and invaded a neighbouring country - while declaring it illegal to say the country is at war. This is what we know...

A captivating history of the late-twentieth century from the world-renowned political scientist and thinker'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' THE TIMES 'None is more eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama' FINANCIAL TIMES In 1989, one year before the fall of the Berlin W...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be...

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. She has selected twenty-six of these narratives to share with the world. Yazbek captures the raw, chill...

For over 10,000 years, the human race has been busy altering our environment and embracing 'progress', evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today.But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st centur...

The highly anticipated major new work from the acclaimed author of Common GroundLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2025'A dazzlingly inventive work of literature' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir' James...

The compelling, provocative account of how the Christian religion conquered the Roman Empire and how Rome in turn shaped Christianity- it's the story of how religion and politics combined to lay the foundations for the Western world.How did Christianity, starting out as a minor offshoot of Judaism...

'The world's most successful history podcast. Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' THE TIMES'The history publishing phenomenon of my lifetime' NEW STATESMANFrom the award-winning podcast The Rest is History and Sunday Times bestselling authors Tom Hol...

A panoramic history of the roots of China and Mongolia's historic rivalry - and why it matters now.'A beguiling blend of history and intimate narrative and a delight to read.' Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk RoadThe Great Wall of China stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to...

Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjec...

Two great cities. One fierce rivalry. Countless untold stories.Athens and Sparta were the two big players in Ancient Greece. United, they helped lead the Greeks in defeating the great Persian invasion. Divided, they spread conflict and destruction throughout the eastern Mediterranean. They were not...

A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien.14th July 1924: In a Warsaw buried under feet of snow and Russian rule, Benedykt Gieroslawski, a dissolute young Polish mathematician...

"The only thing hotter than a character written by Chloe Gong is a betrayal written by Chloe Gong." -Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas SixWar beckons in the kingdom of Talin. On one side sits Calla Tuoleimi and Anton Makusa, and on the other, the recently dethroned August...

Get ready to be blown away by this searing standalone science fiction epic where corporate samurai fight beneath merciless stars, and death is always a mere breath away.Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend has to come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans...

Gripping, intelligent science-fiction from worldwide bestselling author Garth Nix. For fans of the Expanse series by James S A Corey including Leviathan Wakes, and David Weber's Honor Harrington books.Caught me a mountainRode it to the starsIt's business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla...

Golden Son

Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his remaining fuel. But, just once...

Rome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound loss. Through its stirring a...

Distilling a 10-year writing practice onto the page, a collection in pursuit of topics that loom large over us. Begun as a way to process (another) bad break-up in their 20s, Jo Bragg’s debut collection oscillates between poetry and image.Through death, sex, money, time, peace of mind, and power w...

A beautiful, pensive journey through trees in Japan, by celebrated writer Aya Koda - translated into English for the first time's are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them..'Ezo spruce, hinoki, cherry blossoms. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees...