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By telling the story of the arguments and divisions within the Conservative Party, The Worm in the Apple explains why Britain voted to leave in 2016. It is by no means the whole story, but they are an important part of it.

Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city is unique.

Through his timely and intimate portrait of the world's most populous capital city, Jonathan Clements reveals the history of China itself. This first paperback edition includes a new introduction and a section on Zhangjiakou, where many of the 2022 Winter Olympics events will take place.

As Neil Barnett shows in this short but engaging biography, The charismatic, near-mythological figure of Josip Broz Tito was many things: an inspirational partisan leader and scourge of the Germans during their occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War, a doctrinaire communist but an ever-present thorn in Moscow's side.

Britain's relationship with the giant on the edge of the continent, Russia, are surprisingly under explored. With Owen's characteristic insight and expertise, Riddle, Mystery, Enigma depicts a relationship as often governed by principle as by suspicion, expediency, and outright necessity.

A unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich which is an appraisal of both the composer and his music, and the tumultuous and dangerous years of the Russian century through which he lived.

A leading historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history Volker Ullrich has written a very accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck.

A new collection of walks from one of Britain's best-known walking journalists and currently Walking Correspondent for The Times.

Set in Belgrade, a city of flux between East and West, Lily White is a complex and riveting new case for Milena Lukin that once again will take her to the dark heart of Serbia's past.

Bringing together the winning and shortlisted essays from the 2020 Hubert Butler Essay Prize, Self and Society gives five fresh perspectives on the tension between individual freedom and communal solidarity, asking what we owe our communities and why it matters.

A history of the last century of tensions in the Middle East. Until the First World War, the Ottoman Empire had dominated the Middle East for four centuries. Its collapse, coupled with the subsequent clash of European imperial policies, unleashed a surge of political feeling among the people of the Middle East as they vied for national self-determination. Over the century that followed, the region has become almost synonymous with unrest and c...

The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate. Many groups were caught up in fighting each other and competing for Western arms. The exception were those commanded by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the military strategist and political operator who solidified the resistance and undermined the Russian occupation, leading resistance membe...

Personal memoir by former German diplomat Joachim Sartorius who lived in Cyprus for three years.

Unwritten Rule calls for a radical realignment, embracing a federal approach that would accommodate devolution as the best way of bringing about a successful and diverse national life, increasing democratic control over local and national decision-making, and modernising our national political structures.

Originally published in German as "Schwere See: Eine Reise um das Schwarze Meer" by Rowohlt, 2020.

These essays look at the meaning of justice for the 21st century expressed through principles, justice as it can be expressed by our public service institutions, and how justice is expressed in society more widely.

A parable of American society today, Land of Cockaigne is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic, and horrifying. What is to be done in the disaster of our times? Walter Rath offers a clue, a thesis, or a prayer: Love is an action, not a feeling. Once you go down this path of faith, there is much to be done.

Published here for the fi rst time, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's historically unique photographs show the Archivo General de Indias in Seville before its reorganisation.

This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in prison thought to be a mere horror story: Tazmamart. Set to become a cult classic of survival literature, Tazmamart is a hellish journey through the abyss of despair - and out the other side.

Full of fascinating details and written with extraordinary sensitivity, Pepys's London is an unmissable exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.