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From Muldoon to Luxon, untold stories from the House of Parliament Barry Soper has spent close to five decades questioning New Zealand's prime ministers. From the imposing, larger-than-life characters of Rob Muldoon and David Lange, to the golden age of Helen Clark and John Key, and the...

The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Putin’s Russia for more than a year—a glimpse inside the perils and contradictions of a country in the midst of autocracy “Propulsive . . . a taut thriller.”—Patrick Radden Keefe...

Descubre la verdad detrás de los «ídolos» que marcaron el pensamiento popular contemporáneo. El mundo occidental los ha exaltado como héroes. Se nos impuso que debíamos admirarlos, celebrarlos e imitarlos. Pero detrás de su fama y el brillo propagandístico, se esconden contradicciones...

Read by the author, Johnny Mercer. Brutally honest, insightful and darkly funny, No Way To Run A Country is former Cabinet minister Johnny Mercer’s account of a tumultuous nine years in Parliament, under five prime ministers, including Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. In this deeply personal...

'I know no rival to this book in its presentation of a major dynasty in English history' DIARMAID MACCULLOCH 'Fascinating, gripping, revelatory' KATE WILLIAMS THOMAS MADE ENGLAND. OLIVER MADE BRITAIN. Within a century, the Cromwell family produced two of the most powerful, impactful and...

官房長官としての約8年、総理としての約1年――。菅義偉自らが、「官邸でどのような意思決定が行われてきたのか」「総理、官房長官の本当の仕事ぶりとはどのようなものだったのか」を書き残した、総理退任後初となる回顧録。 全てが未知である新型コロナウイルスとの闘いや無観客開催となった東京五輪、安倍晋三元総理の突然の辞任による自民党総裁選挙への立候補など、日本の政治・経済史に残る数々の「決断」の裏側には何があったのか。

The definitive biography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama—a singular portrait of one of the most influential spiritual and political leaders of our time. Drawing from more than fifty traditional Tibetan sources, this landmark work offers the most complete and intimate account to date of the life of Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. It reveals not only the public figure known across the globe, but the spiritual master shaped by prophecy, lineage, and profound historical and spiritual ties.

The New York Times bestselling author of Saving Freedom and cohost of Morning Joe assesses President Abraham Lincoln’s deft timing for the Emancipation proclamation and its consequences for America. Abraham Lincoln’s pragmatism combined with a devotion to higher ideals made him the American...

She told the truth. The Democrats made her pay for it. Once a trusted Democratic insider, Lindy Li watched from the frontlines as the party’s leadership squandered over a billion dollars and a winnable election. But what she revealed in the aftermath was worse than the loss itself. Behind...

What really goes on behind closed doors in Ireland’s most secretive political party? Long defined by message control and secrecy, Sinn Féin has rarely allowed outsiders a glimpse behind the curtain. Ourselves Alone, by former communications adviser and party spokesperson, Siobhán Fenton, is...

'Dubs has been described as the conscience of the Labour movement' The Guardian 'Principled, steely, wise and warm - as wonderful as the writer' Philippe Sands From the Kindertransport to the House of Lords, one of Britain's best-loved political figures reflects on the last eight decades...

Nigel Farage is the most consequential politician of our age. It is possible that he will become the UK's prime minister after the next general election. But who is he? Farage's life has been one hell of a romp. The man who delivered Brexit makes the political weather like no one else. He talks...

Born in Alexandria in 1944 to Jewish parents from Germany and Austria, Margaret arrived in England aged four – stateless, foreign, and an outsider. Those origins shaped everything. Her grandmother was murdered by the Nazis. Her grandfather was greeted as an enemy alien and then interned on...

Glory, Grief, and the Gavel takes listeners deep into the high-stakes world of Capitol Hill, pulling back the curtain on what it takes to lead one of the most complex and unruly institutions in America: the U.S. House of Representatives. While presidential elections hinge on tens of millions of votes, the speakership—the third-highest office in the land and second in line to the presidency—can be decided by just 218.

The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women's roles in antiquity Herodotus's listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battle of Salamis. After all, she was the...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir. Francis Fukuyama, a leading public intellectual, is well-known for his landmark...

So, this is the story I wish to tell, the story of the Left and the world it tried and is trying to change, a struggle that I have been involved in my whole lifetime. . . 'I love Alexei, I love his comedy and I love this book. What more can I say? Marvellous' LEE MACK 'For years, we have...

Brought to you by Penguin. The astonishing true story of Thomas Cochrane – naval hero, political radical and inspiration for Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey – whose audacity at sea, scandals on land and battles across empires make for a tale as thrilling as any novel Cochrane’s life was...

Good Villains is an odyssey into the minds of America's most polarizing figures—those who blur the line between icon and outcast. It begins with an unexpected encounter with Ye (formerly Kanye West) in late 2022, shortly after his billion-dollar empire collapsed and his presidential ambitions spiraled into chaos. What unfolds is a journey across the country, as author Shane Cashman gains unprecedented access to controversial cultural figures such as Alex Jones, Kari Lake, and Riff Raff—culminating in a harrowing profile of a woman at the center of a viral human trafficking controversy.

“A narrative masterwork. Bird vividly creates the sinister web of charm and deceit that Cohn was able to spin through his decades at the very center of power.” —Marie Brenner, award-winning writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and coproducer of the documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn? From the...