Secondhand Current Affairs Books

We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way....

A deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival. This is Hunter Biden's story of tragedy and trauma, and his journey to overcome it all.'In his harrowing and compulsively readable...

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key administration officials, their deputies, and other first-hand sources, Woodward takes listeners deep into the national security state and shows how Obama debates, decides,...

'This book couldn't be more needed right now!' Nigella Lawson'Ruby has a uniquely vibrant and clever way of thinking' Elizabeth Day 'The antidote to all Covid angst' Kathy Lette___________________________Bestselling author...

Welcome to the White House.At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories...

The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told...

No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist,...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'It's all here in this stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump' Sydney Morning Herald'An icy, Iago-like glimpse of the emotional and...

'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening StandardTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just...

Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near...

Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We...

In 1991 journalist and former geologist Peter Hadfield predicted that a major earthquake would hit one of Japan's most industrial areas in the 1990s, the prelude to an era of...

Supergods is your opportunity to join one of the great figures of modern comics on a mind-bending journey into the world of the superheroes. In 1938, the first superhero comic...

An award-winning journalist's investigation into Amazon's true impact on inequality.The market value of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion dollars. In 2020, its annual revenue increased by over 100 billion dollars....

We are living in a period of profound change in the world of work; we are in transition to an information economy which will bring changes as fundamental as did...

How an unlikely group of academics came to power in Washington and provided the philosophical justification for the war on Iraq The teachings of political theorist Leo Strauss (1899-1973) have...

John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when...

The TIMES, OBSERVER and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE WEEK'The world's most powerful people are lying like never before, and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter...

In this short, elegant essay, Ivan Rogers, the UK's former ambassador to the EU, draws up nine lessons for Brexit that we, as a soon-to-be `third country', need to learn...

A fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former US president Donald Trump. Mark Pomerantz was a retired lawyer living a calm suburban life when he accepted an offer...

Tyranny, violence, ignorance, arrogance - the celebrated financier and bestselling author of The Bubble of American Supremacy takes on the policies of post-September 11 America.

Provocative social analysis by new zealand raidcal ex-priests, radio talk- back host and social commentator felix donnelly. The 1986 papal visit to new zealand attracated much smaller crowds than expected....

The Unfinished Global Revolution is a front-line view of the challenges of leadership and the importance of creating greater global cooperation.The former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Mark Malloch-Brown diagnoses the...

'Explosive' Margaret Atwood'Seismic' Observer'Brilliant' Nigella Lawson'Gripping' Jon Ronson*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN AND ZOE KAZAN*A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, METRO AND ELLE BOOK...

The way we are governed is changing; so is our economy. Government has less and less power to influence how we live our lives, while the private sector has more...

WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD 'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'It's all here in this stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump' Sydney Morning Herald'An icy, Iago-like glimpse of the emotional and...

Once there was no text messaging. No email and no social network sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. The way we live has apparently been transformed by new ways of...

From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the...

Riveting and candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister's Press Secretary - a Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Meyer was Ambassador to the United States from...

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its...

The Unfinished Revolution is the definitive story of New Labour from its genesis to its election defeat 2010 - covering over 25 years and six general elections of strategy, rebuilding...

A timely intervention on climate change from the author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers.The tools required to avoid a climate disaster already exist. Between emissions cuts and emerging...

A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. 'This is one of the most important books of our...

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For more than twenty years she has kept a secret...

"This is something of a best seller and it is easy to understand why. It will serve the needs of both Level 1 and other students of social policy well...

Four years after his global bestseller, Joseph Stiglitz now brings the story up to the present, examining how change has occurred even more rapidly since then, proposing solutions and looking...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2019SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR an ECONOMIST Politics and Current Affairs book of the year and...