Free World
Timothy Garton Ash
Allen Lane
At the start of the 21st century, the world plunged into crisis. What began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden soon became a dramatic confrontation between Europe and
Just Law
Helena Kennedy
Chatto & Windus
Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. Here she roundly challenges the record of modern governments
My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism
Andrew Marr
Macmillan
A journalistic memoir from one of the most recognisable TV news correspondents in the UK. How do you decide what is a ‘story’ and what isn’t? What does a newspaper editor actually
Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism
Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
Atlantic Books
A profound investigation of the history of anti-Westersn stereotypes that traces them back to the West itself. Twenty -five years ago, Edward Said’s Orientalism described the denigrating mirage of ‘the East’ in
The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class
Michael Collins
Granta
Once they were portrayed as the salt of the earth. Nowadays, they take to the streets when paedophiles and asylum seekers are in their midst; they expose their lives in TV documentaries;
Wartime: Britain 1939-1945
Juliet Gardiner
Headline
Juliet Gardiner’s critically acclaimed book – the first in a generation to tell the people’s story of the Second World War – offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of