A look at metaphor and how it is used by politicians, from a political speechwriter. Lancaster finds that the same images reoccur repeatedly across the globe, crucially shaping and moulding the way we experience and view events.
With each chapter written by a prominent political figure, including Sir Nicholas Soames, David Owen and Rachel Reeves, the book provides some hugely revealing portraits of Britain's former leaders, shining a light on their sometimes warm, and at other times downright hostile, attitudes towards Europe.
Emily Wilding Davison's suffragette activism, cut short by her death from injuries incurred from rushing on to Epsom racecourse to grab at the King's horse during the 1913 Derby, is told with intricate detail and context, with the mysteries of Davison's death also considered.
Sixth Duke of Westminster Gerald Grosvenor was one of the world's richest men, yet often felt troubled by his position in extreme wealth, alternately ruthless in his business practices and yet feeling powerless at his company. Tom Quinn approaches the enigmatic Grosvenor with this biography, interviewing Grosvenor on multiple occasions prior to his death in 2016.
Stockmarket swindler Whitaker Wrights's life story of amassing wealth around the world by selling deceptive investment opportunities, prior to swallowing cyanide the moment of his jail sentence finally being given, gets told with information from family papers and private archives in this gripping account.
The association between Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee is considered in new depth in this book that analyses the contribution of instances of the two collaborating to the war effort, while touching on other similarities such as their shared love of words.
Caroline Slocock's time as a young civil servant often positioned her as the only other woman in the room in the final eighteen months of Margaret Thatcher's government. This account of that period is based on Slocock's diaries at the time, and reflects on the uneasy position of Thatcher in relation to female aspiration.
Including cartoons by South Africa's foremost political cartoonist Zapiro, this looks at the decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma, and its terrible consequences.
A timely evaluation of how Europe and the EU should cope in a post-Brexit world, it draws on the author's extensive network of senior political, diplomatic, military and business leaders from across the continent.
Entrepreneur and business man James Chen addresses the lack of basic eye care in the third world, and argues that a relatively low level of investment would lead to a dramatic improvement in the quality of life for people across the world. Both a rallying cry and a manifesto directed at government, medicine and business that needs to be heeded.
Peter Day brings to life the world of twentieth-century espionage through the story of one of Britain's most remarkable spies. A contemporary of Arthur Ransome and Sidney Reilly, Hill's life coincided with an age of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female spies.
Katie Hopkins shares her disasters, her biggest disappointments, the lessons she thinks we should learn and the things that even she feels awkward saying, in her controversial, candid and hilarious new book. Part memoir and part handbook for the modern woman, it also provides an introduction to a quieter Katie too.
From the bestselling author of "Out In The Army", comes a new title exploring the growing culture of 'chemsex'. 'A wonderful, stirring and thrilling read. I laughed, wept and winced' Stephen Fry
