Politics & Philosophy

Fear: Trump in the White House [9781471181290]

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Oba…

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Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem [9780008264383]

By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017. The unmissable account of politics covering Theresa May's time as PM…

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Fire and Fury [9781408711408]

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time 'Full o…

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All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class [9780008215156]

'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must-read' - Nick Robinson 'Tim Shipman is brilliantly qualified to write the inside st…

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress [9780241004319]

Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in t…

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The Communist Manifesto [9780141397986]

'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important an…

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No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need [9780241320884]

Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies and co…

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The Gulag Archipelago [9781843430858]

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and int…

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Why We Get the Wrong Politicians [9781782399735]

Politicians are consistently voted the least trusted professional group by the UK public. They've recently become embroiled in scandals concerning sex…

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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain [9781789540987]

England's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If' , says that triumph and disaster are the same thing. It also enjoins the English to 'lose, and start …

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How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again) [9781847925237]

Keep calm - but do not carry on. Despite the claims of those intent on quitting Europe, there is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit. In fact,…

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How to be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living [9781846045073]

In this thought-provoking book, Massimo Pigliucci shares his journey of discovering the power of Stoic practices in a philosophical dialogue with one …

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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner [9781408889299]

Longlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the f…

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The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics [9781849047999]

Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a po…

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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches [9780241982303]

Fully revised and updated. The twentieth century was a century of idealism and revolution and as never before speeches were crucial in stirring the he…

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The Secret World: A History of Intelligence [9780713993660]

The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forg…

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The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience [9781782118671]

'An original and outstanding investigation into a poorly understood but central experience in all our lives. Jules Evans is brave, honest and wise - a…

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Punch and Judy Politics: An Insiders' Guide to Prime Minister's Questions [9781785901843]

Prime Minister's Questions is the bear pit of British politics. Watched and admired around the world, it is often hated at home for bringing out the w…

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Something Has Gone Wrong: Dealing with the Brighton Bomb [9781785903366]

On 12 October 1984, an IRA bomb exploded inside Brighton's Grand Hotel, killing five people and injuring thirty. It was an assassination attempt on Ma…

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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy [9780241373545]

The election happened, remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. And then there was radio silence. Acr…

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