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Read an extract from The Good Muslim
Posted On: June 2, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Dowload the prologue and first scenes of Tahmima Anam’s new novel The Good Muslim.
Read More...An extract from On the State of Egypt
Posted On: May 27, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Bestselling historian Alaa Al Aswany, has written an insightful and hugely relevant series of essays on the recent historical and political situation in Egypt and its impact on other Arabic countries.
Read More...The Master and his Dour, Black Shadow
Posted On: January 21, 2011Posted In: Richard T. Kelly
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Richard T. Kelly’s second column this month sees him powering through New Labour memoirs; a task not as laborious as it may initially appear…
Read More...Listen to Gordon Brown’s LSE interview on Beyond The Crash
Posted On: December 23, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Gordon Brown interviewed about his book Beyond The Crash at the London School of Economics. The book offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis as well as innovative ideas that will help create a sound economic future and will help readers understand what really has happened to our economy.
Read More...Download an extract from Hung Together
Posted On: December 21, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Hung Together tells the story of a year that made political history as told by the protagonists and as witnessed by two journalists with unrivalled access to events. Adam Boulton and Joey Jones were at the heart of the action of the past extraordinary months to build up the most complete and intimate picture of how things unfolded.
Read More...Malcolm Tucker’s Guide to Managing Your Public Image
Posted On: December 16, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE! From the team behind the award-winning and phenomenally successful The Thick Of It, we give you King of Spin Malcolm Tucker. Don’t deny it, you’re intrigued…
Read More...Tension in the White House
Posted On: October 21, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key administration officials, their deputies, and other firsthand sources, Bob Woodward takes listeners deep into the national security state and shows how Obama debates, decides, and balances the enormous pressures facing the modern president.
Read More...An extract from Obama’s Wars
Posted On: October 12, 2010Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key administration officials, their deputies, and other firsthand sources, Bob Woodward takes listeners deep into the national security state and shows how Obama debates, decides, and balances the enormous pressures facing the modern president.
Read More...July non-fiction round-up
Posted On: July 28, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
This month, Bookhugger’s publishers have a wide-ranging selection of non-fiction titles – from classical, pop and jazz music to exploration in hot and cold extremes, from a must-read history of philosophy to observations on the soul-sapping world of work, and countries in economic and environmental crisis.
Read More...Friends & Enemies of ‘The Hitch’: Christopher Hitchens’ memoir
Posted On: June 26, 2010Posted In: Richard T. Kelly
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Journalistic firebrand Christoper Hitchens, whose memoirs were published recently, is a man who has not been afraid to make enemies over the course of a long and distinguished career. Richard T. Kelly argues that’s a good thing indeed.
Read More...Falling in love with the Great British Public
Posted On: May 12, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
As Britain wakes up to a new Prime Minister, and the first coalition government since World War 2, Michael Foley, author of Age of Absurdity, takes a light-hearted look at the secrets of success of David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the election that we can now finally say is finished.
Read More...The Richard T. Kelly Column: What is to be Done? On political arguments in book-form
Posted On: April 29, 2010Posted In: Richard T. Kelly
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
With one week to go until the culmination of a fascinating General Election, Richard T. Kelly considers the art of the political argument in book form.
Read More...April non-fiction round-up – part one
Posted On: April 22, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Part one of our selection of fantastic non-fiction releases from April – from the West Coast of American to Africa, from Nelson Mandela to Bonnie and Clyde, there’s something here for all tastes.
Read More...March non-fiction round-up
Posted On: March 24, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Enjoy Bookhugger’s roundup of the fantastically diverse non-fiction titles that have hit the bookshops this March – from Mussolini to the Mafia, and Eastenders to Okinawa, it’s all here.
Read More...Read an extract from Thatcher’s Britain, by Richard Vinen
Posted On: March 16, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
I remember where I was when it began. On the morning of 4 May 1979 I was in an ‘O’ level Latin class. Our teacher put a transistor radio on his desk and turned it on so that we could hear the speech that Margaret Thatcher read out from notes jotted on the back of a card as she entered 10 Downing Street:
Read More...Michael Foot (1913-2010)
Posted On: March 9, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Faber Finds Editor John Seaton on the giant of the British Left, who died last week at the age of 96.
Read More...February non-fiction round-up
Posted On: February 22, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
The best of the new non-fiction covers such diverse topics as nature writing, how to make the right decisions, the television of the 1970s, the eternal struggle between journalists and politicians, and how dogs think!
Read More...Lance Price on Where Power Lies
Posted On: February 10, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
A witty and informed look at the century-old battle between journalism and politics and what happened to the truth along the way, Lance Price talks about Where Power Lies.
Read More...Tim Bale on the Conservative Party
Posted On: January 21, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Polity
Tim Bale has published a major new assessment of the Conservative Party’s wilderness years which followed their removal of Margaret Thatcher from the leadership in 1990. It examines why it took the party so long to learn from its mistakes and also why change – when it did eventually come – happened so quickly.
Read More...December Non-fiction Round-up – Best of 2009
Posted On: January 3, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
2009 was an amazing year for our publishers’ non-fiction lists. Here we focus on just a few of the wide-ranging titles that saw the light of day and the shelves of many.
Read More...November Non-fiction Round-up
Posted On: November 18, 2009Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Memoirs, science and not fiction, fleeting meetings and long memories, interviews with writers, writing on art, commentary on the UK as it is now and the changes it’s gone through… all these and more are to be found in our November non-fiction list.
Read More...America meets Pakistan in The Duel
Posted On: October 22, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Pakistan stands on the front line of the war against terror. Yet this long-time ally of the West is in deepening crisis. A range of forces threaten to tip the country into a full-blown civil war.
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