A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival
Caroline Moorehead
Chatto & Windus
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz – the only
Adventures In The Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex
Christopher Turner
Fourth Estate
Adventures in the Orgasmatron is the untold story of the dawn of the sexual revolution in America – an illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.
Afgansty
Rodric Braithwaite
Profile Books
In a timely and eye-opening book Rodric Braithwaite examines the Russian experience during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Basing his account on Russian sources and interviews he shows the war through the
Arguably
Christopher Hitchens
Atlantic Books
For forty years, Christopher Hitchens has been at the epicentre of the battle of letters in Britain & America. This blockbuster volume is the collection of a lifetime. ‘As soon as we
Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and The Saville Inquiry
Douglas Murray
Biteback Publishing
One hundred and eight rounds of bullets. Fourteen dead. Fourteen wounded. Two sides to a story and a four-decade search for the truth… It was meant to be a peaceful march. But
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign
Sherard Cowper Cowles
Harper Press
A frank and honest memoir by Britain’s former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard Cowper-Coles was
DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You
Misha Glenny
Bodley Head
The benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every criminal’s dream. We bank online, shop
Dead Men Risen
Toby Harnden
Quercus
This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped and overstretched, they found themselves in the most intense
Hood Rat
Gavin Knight
Picador
Everything you read in here is true. In Manchester, Anders Svensson is on the trail of drug baron Merlin and his lieutenant Flow, a man so dangerous his type is said to
Just Boris: The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity
Sonia Purnell
Aurum Press
A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just
Pakistan: A hard country
Anatol Lieven
Allen Lane
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
Richard Lloyd Parry
Jonathan Cape
Lucie Blackman – tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old – stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were
The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India
Siddhartha Deb
Penguin Books
From leadership seminars in fancy hotels to medieval figures walking from town to town looking for work in small town factories; from the naïve waitresses working in the mecca of five star
The Conservatives - A History
Robin Harris
Transworld
The history of the Conservative party has, extraordinarily, rarely been written in a single volume for the general reader. There are academic multi-volume accounts and a multitude of smaller books with limited
The Opium War
Julia Lovell
Pan Macmillan
‘On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly. . . Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control.’ In October 1839,
To Die For: Is fashion Wearing Out the World
Lucy Siegle
Fourth Estate
Coming at a time when the global financial crisis and contracting of consumer spending is ushering in a new epoch for the fashion industry, To Die For offers a very plausible vision
Unfair Trade
Conor Woodman
Random House
How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds’ worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave the people who produce them barely scraping a