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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.
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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