Oliver Bullough Everybody Loves Our Dollars How Money Laundering Won with Gerry Foley This wildly entertaining exposé of the dark financial secrets at the heart of the world economy explains how money-laundering works. In the criminal world, cash is still king. Barter is pretty good too and crypto currencies flow through paper ledgers. There has […]
Steve Brusatte The Story of Birds with Matthew Stadlen In The Story of Birds, in delightfully energetic prose, expert palaeontologist Steve Brusatte takes us through their 150-million-year history, from their origins among small carnivorous dinosaurs to the 10,000-plus species that thrive today. Sunday Times Book of the Week on publication in June, Steve will be […]
Catherine Mayer Divide & Rule Royal Women and their Battles with Steven Gale Catherine Mayer uncovers the extraordinary women behind the myths. Her portraits of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Victoria, Elizabeth II, Diana, Camilla, Kate and Meghan are fascinating, poignant, surprising and enraging, revealing them in all their complexity, charting their achievements, quirks, kindnesses, cruelties […]
Jane Rogoyska Paris in the Shadow of War with Gavin Mortimer In the 1930s, the Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s Left Bank hosted exiled Germans. But when war broke out, it became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service. In 1945, It was requisitioned as a reception centre for deportees returning from concentration camps. Hotel […]