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Betrayed
The English Catholic Church and the Sex Abuse Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Since the mid-1980s, the Catholic Church has been embroiled in a profound crisis of clerical sexual abuse. In many Western countries, paedophile priests have been exposed and convicted, and the Church's moral and social standing has suffered deeply. Scandals in Ireland and America have been extensively...
by John Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The war on the old has been declared.
In the post-Brexit world, intergenerational conflict has become a visible phenomenon. There is an overwhelming sense of blame from younger generations: it was 'the wrinklies', the grey-haired plutocracy, who voted Leave; who are overburdening hospitals,...
Prime Minister Corbyn
And other things that never happened
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if …
Britain had lost the Falklands War?
Scotland had voted ‘Yes’ in 2014?
German reunifi cation had never happened?
the Conservatives had won an overall majority in 2010?
Lyndon Johnson had been shot down in...
Talking to a Brick Wall
How New Labour Stopped Listening to the Voter and Why We Need a New Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
With a foreword by Michael Portillo. Deborah Mattinson had a unique perspective on the New Labour project. As Britain's leading political pollster, she has been monitoring public opinion since the mid-1980s, and helped transform Labour into Europe's greatest election-winning machine of the modern...
Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume 7
From Crash to Defeat, 2007-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Caught in the no man’s land between being a key figure in Downing Street and the relative anonymity of the world outside politics, Alastair Campbell finds himself being torn in several directions. Having succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown wants Campbell at his side. Campbell resists,...
The New Philistines
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege.
The quest for truth, freedom and the sacred has been thrust aside...
Refusing the Veil
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This topic divides people - and it will divide readers of this book too. Many Muslims worldwide either support or adopt religious veiling, and those who argue against it are often criticised, or worse. But, according to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the veil throws up a number of concerns, from questions...
Xavier
A British Secret Agent with the French Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Colnel Richard Heslop, alias Xavier, was one of Britain's Greatest Special Operations agents in France. Ingeniously orchestrating resistance groups and ruthlessly sabotaging German operations, Xavier played a crucial role in Allied espionage during the war, from late 1942 right through to D-Day. Sent...
by Edwina Currie
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Helen Majinsky is sixteen, Jewish and confused. She is also in love - like every Merseyside schoolgirl - with four mop-topped young men, seduced by the Cavern Club and the exciting sound of 1963. In the year The Beatles have the world at their feet, Helen dreams secretly of reaching university and...
Forever England
The Life of Rupert Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Rupert Brooke, strikingly good-looking, effortlessly charming and prodigiously gifted, has become the tragic embodiment of the generation lost between 1914 and 1918. Upon the poet's tragic untimely death, Winston Churchill declared that 'we shall never see his like again', yet Brooke immortalised...
The Kremlin's Geordie Spy
The Man They Swapped for Gary Powers
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Discover an extraordinary, true-life adventure that could have appeared straight from the pages of a John le Carré Cold War novel. In February 1962 Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace, was released by his Russian captors in exchange for one...
The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide To Football Glory
The Story of Béla Guttman
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2017.
Longlisted for the Coutts Football Writers Association Award 2018.
Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the...
Seeking Gaddafi
Libya, the West and the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
On 18th March 2011 the United Nations passed Resolution 1973 allowing the establishment of a No Fly Zone above the towns and cities of Libya to defend civilians from the oppressive regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. With NATO planes now patrolling the skies over Libya's main cities, the country faces...
Following Farage
On the Trail of the People's Army
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Hunting with Godfrey Bloom; lunching on expenses with Janice Atkinson; talking 'shock and awful' campaign tactics with Douglas Carswell - nothing is off the table when you're on the trail of UKlP's People's Army. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 meets Louis Theroux, Following Farage recounts...