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 […]
Alwyn Turner A Shellshocked Nation Britain Between the Wars with Juliet Nicolson Upstairs at Bookfest After the calamity of the Great War, Britain longed for escapist fun. It was easier to spend a day at the seaside than to worry about mass unemployment, political scandals or military manoeuvres in Europe. Combining cultural, social and political […]
Jonathan Wilson The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup with Gavin Jamieson The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet. The author of footballing classic Inverting the Pyramid puts a fresh and invigorating spin on the history of the World Cup, placing the tournaments within […]
Harriet Rix The Genius of Trees Richard Negus Words from the Hedge with Ruth Pavey Profoundly original, The Genius of Trees reveals the astonishing extent to which trees shape the world around us. We discover that trees manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and even humankind to achieve their ends. The Genius of Trees […]
Alanna Skuse The Surgeon, the Midwife and the Quack How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Kate Harris Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England - a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants. But a medical revolution was afoot and this book evokes the […]
Paul O’Keeffe Trafalgar Battle and Aftermath with Julian Worricker About 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 22-gramme, 15-millimetre French musket. O’Keeffe gives us a front-row view of the Battle of Trafalgar; and in his unflinching portrayal of the brutal reality of naval warfare, he tells […]
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 […]
Stephen McGinty One Morning in March: Dunblane and the Shooting that Changed Britain with Julian Worricker Thirty years ago, a man walked into a Dunblane Primary School and shot dead a teacher and 16 children before killing himself. Stephen McGinty recounts the lead-up to that day and the powerful true story of how a band […]