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Written with never-before-seen documents from Paul Keating’s archive and drawing on long conversations and interviews with him over many years, this book explores the ambitions for Australia and its place in the world that guided Keating: arguably the last Prime Minister with a compelling...

After almost a decade and a half of Tory rule, the 2024 General Election saw the Conservatives suffer their worst-ever defeat: they received 7.14 million fewer votes than in 2019; 23.7 per cent is their lowest ever vote share; and their current 121 MP contingent is their smallest since 1832...

The long-awaited and revelatory biography of Hannah Arendt — one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century — and the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Born in Germany in 1906 to a Jewish family, Hannah...

America’s biggest political prisoner writes his own story explaining all details on how it looks like to be living both on top and on the bottom of the world. By having the strength to endure hell he got the opportunity to be heard and examined once again where all his innocence came to sight. Framed, F*cked, and Freed, a once-in-a-century-story about human endurance, patience, grace, and sacrifice.

Mut, Zuversicht, Selbstvertrauen: Das zeichnet Marianne Koch aus, und ihre alleinerziehende Mutter hat es ihr vorgelebt. Ihren Vater, den jüdischen Arzt Rudolf Schindler, der emigrieren musste, lernt sie erst als Erwachsene kennen. Da hat ihre Filmkarriere, der zuliebe sie ihr Medizinstudium unterbrach, sie schon nach Hollywood geführt. Doch ihre Passion gilt der Medizin.

Mut, Zuversicht, Selbstvertrauen: Das zeichnet Marianne Koch aus, und ihre alleinerziehende Mutter hat es ihr vorgelebt. Ihren Vater, den jüdischen Arzt Rudolf Schindler, der emigrieren musste, lernt sie erst als Erwachsene kennen. Da hat ihre Filmkarriere, der zuliebe sie ihr Medizinstudium unterbrach, sie schon nach Hollywood geführt. Doch ihre Passion gilt der Medizin.

Auch Tülin, geboren in Berlin-Neukölln, steht von Kindheit an vor der Frage: Wie (viel) deutsch kann und muss ich sein? Jede Begegnung verschiebt die Antwort auf dieser Suche nach Identität. Tülin lebt im ständigen Spagat zwischen der Berlinerin mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland und dem Almanci-Mädchen in der Türkei. Mit Humor und feinem Gespür für Menschen erzählt sie von den Momenten, die sie prägten, stärkten oder auch verletzten – und ihren Blick schärften für Charaktere, Eigenheiten und Klischees.

In the late nineteenth century, the great Tory leader Lord Salisbury and his closest collaborators were haunted by the looming threat of Home Rule in Ireland. Salisbury, an anxious man obsessed by visions of social disintegration, was determined to undermine the legitimacy of what he saw as a...

Twenty-seven years in service and fifty-three transfers: that's an average of six months in each posting. Meet the forever-in-transit man of the Indian bureaucracy, Ashok Khemka. The IAS officer shot into the limelight in 2012, when he cancelled the mutation of a land deal between realty major...

This is the story of how Scott Presler got things done in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other cities that have crumbled under Democratic leadership. This is the story of how Scott Presler, quite literally, cleaned up America’s cities. It’s also the story of how Scott founded one of the most influential voter registration organizations in American history, helping Donald Trump to win the Oval Office in 2024.

From two of the world’s leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive—and most unsettling—account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Exiled from the Soviet Union and living under constant threat, Leon Trotsky believed that by 1937 he had found sanctuary in Mexico...

A gripping new biography of one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history: Cicero When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off and his tongue pierced with pins – a final, brutal act of revenge against a man whose words had shaped a...

A bold new portrait of Livia, ancient Rome’s first First Lady, who shaped the empire from behind the throne Livia was no ordinary Roman woman. As wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius―the first and second Roman emperors―she stood at the heart of the first imperial dynasty, wielding...

« En homme libre, j'ai décidé de tout dire. Mes combats, mes doutes, mes erreurs, mes blessures : ce livre est un témoignage sans fard. J'ai aussi voulu parler des Français et de la France, qui m'ont tant donné et pour qui je veux tout donner. Car lorsqu'on veut servir son pays, il ne peut y avoir ni secret ni faux-semblant. » Ce livre audio est interprété par une voix humaine, dans le respect des engagements d'Hardigan. Photo : ©François Roelants

‘Cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive’ ZOË SCHLANGER ‘Explosive … fascinating’ RENI EDDO-LODGE ‘Riveting’ ERIC KLINENBERG The explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet, and what their legacy illuminates about the...

A ground-breaking and revelatory exploration of the remarkable friendship between Queen Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill. In February 1952, when the young Elizabeth returned to London after her sudden accession to the throne, Churchill was first to greet her as she stepped off the aircraft...

America has never had more ways to “connect,” yet we’ve never been more divided, lonely, and silent. Civil discourse—once the lifeblood of democracy—has been replaced by a fear of losing friends and family, being ridiculed on social media, getting swatted by anonymous callers, or losing your job, all because of words you spoke.

From one of the most influential officeholders in Texas and power brokers in Washington over the last seventy years, lifetime Democrat Ben Barnes, an intimate and unexpected look behind the corridors of power. Ben Barnes started out as a whistleblower. He was only nineteen when he uncovered...

Gambetta est partout : pas une ville qui n'ait une place, un boulevard, une rue ou une statue à sa gloire. S'il marque profondément la toponymie française, c'est parce qu'il est le père fondateur de la IIIe République, mais connaît-on pour autant l'ampleur de son action ? Jeune avocat prometteur puis député à la fin du Second Empire, il est l'un des acteurs majeurs du 4 septembre 1870 – jour de la proclamation de la IIIe République.

新加坡传奇记者陈加昌的22万字历史笔记。 《亚洲周刊》2015年度十大好书，新加坡文学奖2016非小说类大奖。...