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Alex Brummer US food giant Kraft bought Cadbury in 2010, Dutch group AkzoNobel acquired ICI in 2007, and that's just the beginning. The truth is that hundreds of billions of pounds' worth... | Mark Tully Since the Indian economy was liberated from bureaucratic, socialist controls in 1991, it has developed rapidly. Have the changes had any impact on the poor and marginalised? And, can India's... |
Nick Robinson The relationship between those who wield power and those whose job it is to tell us what they are doing has always been fraught with tension. This book takes you... | Tony Blair In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He has been one of the... |
Ken Livingstone From his eccentric South London working class childhood to running one of the biggest cities in the world, Livingstone is one of the very few politicians to have scored a... | Ferdinand Mount A sharp and engaging political analysis of how democracy in Britain is being replaced by oligarchy |
George W. Bush A memoir of George W Bush, America's 43rd president. It takes us on a journey through the defining decisions of his life. It describes his flaws and mistakes, as well... | David Priestland Proposes a radical approach to how we see our world, and who runs it, in the vein of Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History". This title argues for the predominance... |
David Lammy David Lammy MP predicted the riots of 2011 a year before they took place. In this book, he analyses the causes of the disturbances and their implications for the future... | Edward Pearce A book that opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain... |
David Remnick From the New Yorker editor and bestselling author of King of the World, the first ever biography of President Obama -- updated in paperback to cover his first two years... | D.R. Thorpe Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person and influential as a politician. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches... |
Samuel L. Popkin There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins and the inevitable victor after it ends. Popkin draws on a lifetime of presidential campaign... | William J. Dobson It's not easy being a dictator these days. Since the end of the Cold War, dictatorships worldwide have been on the decline and those that survive have changed dramatically. This... |
Martin Gilbert Follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. This title offers a portrait using Churchill's personal letters and the recollections of his contemporaries, both friends and... | Peter Godwin A moving personal account of Zimbabwe under Mugabe's terror |