Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences
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38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
‘A globe-trotting legal thriller, a personal history and a twin portrait of a pair of mass murderers . . . indelible and enthralling’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
‘Phenomenal’ ANTONY BEEVOR
‘Extraordinary . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart’ STEPHEN FRY
In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands blends personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe a secret double story of mass murder, one that reveals a shocking thread that links the horrors of the 1940s with those of our own times.
The house at 38 Londres Street is home to the legacies of two men whose personal stories span continents, nationalities and decades of atrocity: Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, and Walther Rauff, a Nazi SS officer responsible for the use of gas vans.
On the run from justice at the end of the Second World War, Rauff crosses the ocean to southern Chile. He settles in Punta Arenas, Patagonia, managing a king crab cannery at the end of the world. But there are whispers about this discreet and self-possessed German – rumours of a second career with Pinochet’s secret intelligence service, the dreaded DINA.
In 1998, Pinochet is in a London medical clinic when the police enter his room and arrest him on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide. Philippe Sands is called to advise the former head of state on his claim to immunity, but will instead represent a human rights organisation against him. Years later, Sands makes a discovery while working on another book which reignites his interest in the case and leads to a decades-long investigation into Pinochet’s crimes, his unexpected connection to Rauff and the former Nazi’s possible connection to Chile’s disappeared.
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A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you – Maya Angelou
Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa’s birthday.
Mina has been fighting for justice ever since – for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time. Starting from her childhood in foster care and arriving at the present day, Mina looks back on her time as a schoolteacher, and then as the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England, before sharing her experience of losing her two daughters, Bibaa and Nicole.
Told through grief and with compassion, humour and love, this deeply personal memoir is Mina’s beacon of hope, which calls for all of us to step up, collectively, and work together for a better future.
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Abundance: How We Build a Better Future
MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 – FINANCIAL TIMES and the NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB
‘Spectacular … Inspires hope’ New York Times
‘Forceful, quick-moving … important’ Financial Times
‘Ambitious’ New Yorker
‘Necessary’ New Statesman
‘Chilling … Inspirational … A book that matters’ Sunday Times
‘One of the most important political books of the past decade’The New EuropeanThe threat to liberal democracy isn’t just autocrats – it’s a lack of effective action by so-called progressives.
We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It’s time for change.
Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have spent decades analysing the political, economic and cultural forces that have led us here. In this once-in-a-generation intervention, they unpick the barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds. From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.
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BBC Proms 2025 (BBC Proms Guides)
The BBC Proms is the world’s biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London and across the UK, it is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts a glittering array of artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world. Whether you’re a first-time visitor or an experienced Prommer, watching at home or listening on radio or online, the BBC Proms Guide is an excellent companion to the festival, which you can treasure and return to in years to come.
Filled with concert listings and articles by leading writers, the BBC Proms Guide offers an insight into the performers and repertoire, as well as thought-provoking opinion pieces about music, musicians and music-making.
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Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘Chokepoints is a masterful narrative of US economic warfare in the 21st century.’ Financial Times
‘Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics’ Wall Street Journal
’A gripping, firsthand account. Unparalleled.’ Chris Miller, author of Chip War
Globalisation was once hailed as the great leveller, bringing prosperity to all. But the world has changed. As Russia, China and Iran have sought to upend the international order, America and its allies have mounted unprecedented economic retaliation. The global economy is now a weapon of war.
Chokepoints is a thrilling behind-the-scenes account of one of the most pivotal geopolitical shifts of our time. Drawing on extensive research, personal experience and interviews with key players, Edward Fishman, a former top US State Department official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power around the world. Here we meet an eclectic group of innovators: the diplomats, lawyers and financial whizzes who’ve masterminded a fearsome new arsenal of economic weapons, exploiting Western dominance in global finance and technology, and harnessing the power of Wall Street, the City of London and Silicon Valley to confront a rising authoritarian axis.
The sanctions against Russia might be the biggest coordinated act of economic warfare we’ve seen, but it won’t be the last. Control over modern-day chokepoints – such as the US dollar, advanced microchip technology and critical energy supply chains – has become the key to geopolitical power in the twenty-first century. The result is an economic arms race among great powers and a fracturing global economy. Utterly gripping and brimming with rare insight, Chokepoints is indispensable reading to understand the forces that will shape our world for decades to come.
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Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
It seems like we can’t talk about anything nowadays… Whether it’s war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying – from online pile-ons and doxing to job loss and, in some cases, death. But how did we end up here?
Nuanced and historically grounded, A. C. Grayling searches for middle ground in an otherwise incendiary debate. Looking at the history of cancellation, from Ancient Greek ‘ostracism’ through hemlock cups, witch trials and the House of Un-American Activities, Discriminations is a timely examination of the state of our public culture and the chilling effect it’s having on intellectual discourse.
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Failed State: The Sunday Times Bestselling Investigation Into Why Britain is Struggling
The Top Five Sunday Times Bestseller
‘Excellent . . . persuasive . . . convincing’ – The Times
‘Funny, whipsmart and devastating. Sanity on steroids’ – Emily Maitlis
‘Fantastic. An exquisite analysis’ – The Secret BarristerWhy does nothing work in Britain?
It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. Rivers are overrun with sewage. Real wages have been stagnant for years, even as the cost of housing rises inexorably. Why is everything going wrong at the same time?
It’s easy to blame dysfunctional politicians who are out for themselves. But, in reality, it’s more complicated. Politicians can make things better or worse, but all work within our state institutions. And ours are utterly broken.
In Failed State, Sam Freedman, one of Britain’s leading policy experts, offers a devastating analysis of where we’ve gone wrong. With historical depth and plenty of infuriating examples, he explains why British governance has fallen so far behind. Speaking to politicians of all stripes, civil servants and workers on the frontline, this book bursts with insight on the real problems that are so often hidden from the front pages. The result is a witty, landmark book that paves the way for a fairer and more prosperous Britain.
‘We can only hope that every member of the new government will read and digest this book’ – David Aaronovitch, BBC Radio 4 Presenter
‘Brilliantly timed and frighteningly true’ – Sir Anthony Seldon, bestselling author of Johnson at 10Read more
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Hell in Boots: Clawing My Way Through Nine Lives
An eye-opening memoir of family drama, stardom, despair, and resilience from the wildly popular wrestling superstar.Saraya-Jade Bevis, formerly WWE’s Paige, is one of the biggest names in the wrestling world. She is the youngest two-time WWE Divas Champion and was inaugural NXT’s Women Champion. She ranked first in Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Female 50 and was named Diva of the Year by Rolling Stone in 2014. She was also the subject of the critically and commercially successful 2019 film Fighting with My Family, produced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and starring Florence Pugh. But before ascending to wrestling superstardom, she was just Saraya.
Hell in Boots is Saraya’s real, uncensored, story. From her early days in her famous (and chaotic) wrestling family, to leaving home at fifteen, to forging her own path in professional wrestling, Saraya has been through hell and back. As she fought to make it in the incredibly competitive—and at times sexist—wrestling world, she faced incredible highs and devastating lows. Saraya recounts years of struggling with substance abuse, clawing back her pride after an ex’s sex tape leaked, adjusting to stardom in the WWE, healing from a nearly career-ending injury, a making triumphant return to wrestling as AEW Women’s World Champion. Through it all, Saraya tells her whole truth in a way she never has before.
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Like Mother, Like Son : Life of Serial Killers Sante and Kenny Kimes (Serial Killer True Crime Books Book 36)
What happens when evil runs in the family? Uncover the chilling true story of Sante and Kenny Kimes—a deadly duo whose twisted bond turned into a terrifying crime spree that shocked the nation.
Sante Kimes lived her whole life in callous disregard for others. Like a true narcissist, all she worried about was her own selfish desires, and every effort she made was purely for her profit and self-gain. She passed these qualities on to Kenny, her son, and by the time he was an adult, the two had forged a terrifying bond in which they defied all moral restraints.
Unburdened by any sense of right and wrong, these two did whatever they could to progress themselves in evil doings. They faked fires to rake in insurance money; they filed fabricated and false lawsuits; and ultimately, they committed murder—all for their own pleasure and enrichment.
From the questionable deaths of relatives to mysteriously vanishing bankers, gunned down insurance brokers, and finally, the horrific sight of Kenny Jr. running down a busy New York sidewalk with a suitcase dripping blood—this book chronicles every step taken in the deviant lives of Sante and Kenny Kimes.
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Nexus: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of Sapiens
The phenomenal international and Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Sapiens
Stories brought us together.
Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.
The internet promised infinite knowledge.
The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.
What will AI do?
Nexus is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive.
PRAISE FOR NEXUS
‘One of the most remarkable intellects of our generation’ RORY STEWART
‘Tremendous, thought-provoking and so very well-reasoned . . . If there is one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRY
‘A wake-up call in the gentlest, most urgent way’ YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
‘This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN
‘A super narrative writer’ GUARDIAN
‘[Harari] sticks the world together in a gleaming shape that inspires and excites’ TELEGRAPH
PRAISE FOR YUVAL NOAH HARARI
‘The great thinker of our age’ THE TIMES
‘Interesting and provocative’ BARACK OBAMA
‘One of my favourite writers and thinkers’ NATALIE PORTMAN
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Odyssey Moscow: One American’s Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State
‘A riveting tale of betrayal and lawlessness by the Russian Government, told by the most successful US investor in Russia’ – Ambassador John Sullivan, US Ambassador to Russia 2020–22
It is dawn on Thursday, 14 February 2019, and armed FSB agents are raiding Michael Calvey’s Moscow apartment.
He is being arrested for a crime that never happened.
Twenty-eight years earlier, Calvey – a newly graduated, aspiring Wall Street hotshot – made a short trip from America to the recently collapsed USSR to look at potential investments. Sensing huge opportunity, he soon based himself in Moscow, where he lived through the ‘Wild East’ years and went on to build several billion-dollar funds – earning enormous returns for Western investors as Russia opened up to international business. He gained a reputation that would lead to Bloomberg describing him as ‘a legend in the Russian market, with a reputed aversion to any kind of foul play’.
But now, he finds himself thrown into Moscow’s notorious Matrosskaya Tishina prison on charges trumped up by local business rivals. As the White House and Kremlin argue about his incarceration, Calvey is caught in a Kafka-esque trap, denied access to evidence proving his innocence.
Odyssey Moscow is the story not just of Michael Calvey, but of how Russia’s era of hope and aspiration finally died, and how light can be found in the darkest of places.
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Shine Your Light: A new 2025 interactive self-help journal to guide you to deeper emotional intelligence, from the star of Married at First Sight Australia
‘An uplifting, joyful and life-changing book. Lucinda’s warmth, wisdom and kindness just leaps from every page. Completely beautiful.’ Vicky Pattison
Lucinda Light guides you towards deeper emotional intelligence and genuine self-love in this interactive journal
Does true connection ever feel just out of reach? Take Lucinda Light’s hand as she illuminates the path to deeper, more meaningful relationships – starting with the one you have with yourself.
Brimming with thought-provoking prompts and tools, unique hand-drawn illustrations, and Lu’s soulful wisdom – shaped by her wildly rich life – this guided emotional intelligence journal will leave you feeling truly gorgeous!
Open up and see your light shine!
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Tech-Smart Parenting: How to keep your kids happy and safe online
Banning screens doesn’t work – this is how we really keep our kids safe.
As a child psychotherapist specialising in cybertrauma for over 14 years, I get asked the same questions from parents again and again. What age should I let my child have a smartphone? What games are safe? Can screen use damage my child’s growing brain? How can I protect my child from cyber bullying, seeing unsuitable content, addiction, grooming – or any number of other harms online? Parents are overwhelmed, scared and confused about how to manage the technology surrounding their children – and this is where this book comes in.
In this book, cybertrauma expert Catherine Knibbs explains in simple and reassuring language what the science really tells us about the dangers of technology and how it can affect young growing minds. Setting out clear strategies for helping kids develop a positive relationship with technology at any age, it will empower parents with the tools to set clear and confident boundaries whilst also nurturing a strong relationship with their child. It will give parents confidence in the skills they already have to parent in a world of tech whilst always being there for their child.
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The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’ CAITLIN MORAN‘Fascinating and essential… I urge you to read every syllable’ JO BRAND
‘All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ ROBIN INCE
AI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates. Might this mean a future reimagined on equitable terms for women and marginalised groups everywhere?
Not unless we fight for it. At present, power remains largely in the hands of a few rich, white men. New AI-driven technologies, with misogyny baked into their design, are putting women in danger, their rights and safety sacrificed at the altar of profitability and reckless speed.
In The New Age of Sexism, Sunday Times bestselling author and campaigner Laura Bates takes us deep into the heart of this rapidly evolving world. She explores the metaverse, confronts deepfake pornography, travels to cyber brothels, tests chatbots, and hears from schools in the grip of online sexual abuse, showing how our lives – from education to work, sex to entertainment – are being infiltrated by easily accessible technologies that are changing the way we live and love. What she finds is a wild west where existing forms of discrimination, inequality and harassment are being coded into the future we will all have little choice about living in – unless we seize this moment to demand change.
Gripping, courageous and eye-opening, The New Age of Sexism exposes a phenomenon we can’t afford to ignore any longer. Our future is on the line. We need to act now, before it is too late.
‘Urgent reading for anyone who is interested in the intersection of tech and gender equality, and indeed anyone who wants to be a part of building a better future, free from misogyny’ EMMA-LOUISE BOYNTON
‘A brilliantly researched, incredibly illuminating and frequently chilling account of the next chapter in tech’s ongoing assault on our core values. A chapter that is already unfolding around us all’ JAMES O’BRIEN
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Unloved: From the bestselling author, Toni Maguire comes a new story of abuse and survival
How does an abusive childhood lead you into the world of drug dealers and addiction?When Marc was a small child, his father committed suicide. When his mother remarried, Marc thought his life was going to be OK but he could never have imagined just what was going to happen…
Unloved is Marc’s powerful story of sinking into the depths of addiction and despair and then finding the inner strength to rise above it. Marc is now at peace with his past and leads a happy and productive life.
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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2025
*Standard hardback edition*The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Home to some of the finest sports writing of the year – from the likes of Lawrence Booth, Gideon Haigh, Rob Smyth, Patrick Collins, Simon Wilde, Osman Samiuddin, Tony Cozier, Benj Moorehead, Raf Nicholson and Dileep Premachandran – Wisden includes the thought-provoking Notes by the Editor, the famous Cricketers of the Year awards, and the authoritative obituaries. And, as ever, there are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
There can’t really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it’s obviously Wisden.” Andrew Baker, The Daily Telegraph
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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2025
*Standard hardback edition*The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Home to some of the finest sports writing of the year, in this edition: Gideon Haigh reflects on the latest Australia v India series, Scyld Berry pays tribute to James Anderson, following his retirement, and Derek Underwood and Graham Thorpe are remembered by Mike Brearley and Alec Stewart – their former Test captains and friends. Wisden also considers cricket’s deepening reliance on artificial intelligence, and whether the game can ever thrive in the USA.
As usual, Wisden includes the thought-provoking Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the authoritative obituaries. There are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
There can’t really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it’s obviously Wisden.” Andrew Baker, The Daily Telegraph
@WisdenAlmanack”
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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2025
*Soft cover edition*The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Home to some of the finest sports writing of the year, in this edition: Gideon Haigh reflects on the latest Australia v India series, Scyld Berry pays tribute to James Anderson, following his retirement, and Derek Underwood and Graham Thorpe are remembered by Mike Brearley and Alec Stewart – their former Test captains and friends. Wisden also considers cricket’s deepening reliance on artificial intelligence, and whether the game can ever thrive in the USA.
As usual, Wisden includes the thought-provoking Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the authoritative obituaries. There are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
There can’t really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it’s obviously Wisden.” Andrew Baker, The Daily Telegraph
@WisdenAlmanack”
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