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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.
Read More...An interview with David Simon, by Nick Hornby
Posted On: October 1, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.”
Read More...September non-fiction round-up
Posted On: September 29, 2009Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
If fiction’s not your thing, September sees a wealth of fascinating new non-fiction hitting the shelves, including : biographies of characters as diverse as a novelist, a poker star, a movie mogul and a top tailor; and histories of the liberation of Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Read More...Dr Nick Megoran, on Democratic Ideals and Reality
Posted On: September 25, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Halford Mackinder’s Democratic Ideals and Reality was one of the two major polemical works published in 1919 (the other was the much more famous The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes). Now it’s available again, thanks to the magic of print-on-demand imprint Faber Finds.
Read More...John Kampfner asks: is our freedom for sale?
Posted On: September 18, 2009Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Award-winning journalist John Kampfner surveys the state of democracy in the world, and considers the assaults on freedom of expression and individual liberties that have taken place in many countries in the name of prosperity and material wealth.
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