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The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

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Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before....
JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination

JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination

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Author: John Hughes-Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was...
The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year

The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year

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Author: Janice Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, full of strange...
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

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Author: Frank Tallis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a...
Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor's investigation into stalking

Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor's investigation into stalking

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Author: Nicole Madigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping blend of memoir, investigation and expert analysis, Obsession takes a deep dive into the disturbing phenomenon of stalking. Journalist...
Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances

Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances

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Author: Julian Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'It's rare to find a book that is not only intensely personal but deeply practical. Julian Fisher has somehow pulled it...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

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Author: George Chauncey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A fascinating look at a gay world that was not supposed to have existed, this book shows that gay life in...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

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Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing...
Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age

Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age

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Author: Martin Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, elite populists, and freextremists are exploiting our digital information infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our...
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*

Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*

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Author: Victoria Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023 'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer 'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

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Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...
Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party

Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party

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Author: John Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved....
Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear

Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear

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Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

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Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar 'Jaw dropping even for North Korea ....
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence

Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence

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Author: Bethany Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Excellent...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet

The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet

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Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century

Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century

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Author: Elise Bohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

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Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It

Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It

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Author: Tobias Rose-Stockwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND An invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with...
The Origins of You: How to Break Free from the Family Patterns that Shape Us

The Origins of You: How to Break Free from the Family Patterns that Shape Us

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Author: Vienna Pharaon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

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Author: Stephanie Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic...
The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency

The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency

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Author: Egil "Bud" Krogh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The true story of the White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, their ill-conceived plans to stop...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

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Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

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Author: Susie Alegre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to...
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the

The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the

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Author: Alex Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 New York Times-bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape...
Black Snake: The Daring of Ned Kelly

Black Snake: The Daring of Ned Kelly

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Author: Carole Wilkinson (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Part of the award-winning Young Adult non-fiction series, The Drum. "Everyone looks on me like a black snake." - Letter...
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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Author: Amanda Montell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell...
Curtin's Empire

Curtin's Empire

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Author: James Curran (University of Sydney) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 John Curtin remains a venerated leader. His role as Labor's wartime supremo is etched deep into the national...
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

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Author: Marc Dingman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New...
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right

White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right

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Author: Jacob Kushner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

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Author: Patrick Winn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region...
The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business

The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business

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Author: Lucy Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 If you want to be a successful leader in today's business world, you need to think like an activist. If you...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It

Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It

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Author: Jake Wallis Simons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write...
Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment

Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment

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Author: Yanis Varoufakis (University of Athens Greece) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in...
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

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Author: Laura Dodsworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There...
Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us

Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us

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Author: Pete Etchells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a...
The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge

Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge

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Author: John G. Matsusaka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
Goddesses in You

Goddesses in You

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Author: Christine Lister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Goddesses In You illuminates how archetypal patterns are the doorway into a hidden universe, the key to who you truly are....
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to

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Author: Judith Herman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith...
Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future

Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future

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Author: Robby Soave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From award-winning journalist and author of the "methodical, earnest, and insightful" (The Guardian) Panic Attack, an examination of recent kneejerk calls...
Butts: A Backstory

Butts: A Backstory

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Author: Heather Radke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

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Author: Liz Cheney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...
Will You Help Me?: Ralph's true story of abuse, secrets and lies

Will You Help Me?: Ralph's true story of abuse, secrets and lies

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Author: Maggie Hartley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?' Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care...