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Fiona Sampson

Starlight Wood

We think we know the Romantic countryside: that series of picturesque landscapes familiar from paintings, poems and […]

Philippe Sands

The Last Colony

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported […]

Isabel Wilkerson

Caste

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America […]

Sinclair McKay

Dresden – The Fire and the Darkness

In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the ‘Florence of the Elbe’. Bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs […]

Frederick Taylor

1939

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages […]

Colin Grant

Homecoming – Voices of the Windrush Generation

When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his […]

Bob Woodward

Fear – Trump in the White House

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed […]

Clair Wills

Lovers and Strangers

The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers – to rebuild, to fill the […]

Rosi Braidotti (editor)

After Poststructuralism

Volume 7 analyses the main developments in continental philosophy between 1980-1995, a time of great upheaval and […]