Short lists

Ali Brick

Brick Lane
Monica Ali

Doubleday

Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat of her Bangladeshi village, home

Campbell Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher - Volume Two: The Iron Lady by John Campbell
John Campbell

Jonathan Cape

The first volume of John Campbell’s biography of Margaret Thatcher was described by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as ‘much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher’. That volume, The

Davies Rising

Rising '44: The Battle For Warsaw
Norman Davies

Macmillan

The story of the Warsaw Rising from the the leading British authority on the history of Poland. Rising ’44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in

Young Supping

Supping with the Devils: Political Journalism from Thatcher to Blair
Hugo Young

Atlantic Books

Supping with the Devils is the first collection of Hugo Young’s journalism. In it, he interprets the major events that have punctuated British political life, but it also considers subjects as diverse

Cooper Breaking

The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
Robert Cooper

Atlantic Books

When communism collapsed in 1989 there was a fundamental change in the European state system. This landmark book presents a radical interpretation of the new international order. Many of what Cooper calls