Tina Brown, a former Editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling “ The Diana Chronicles (2007)”. The Palace Papers, take the readers on a tour that shows the Queens’s stoic resolve as she copes with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and her partner for seven…
Although premonitions are impossible, they come true all the time. Two nights before the Aberfan disaster in 1966, when 116 children died as an amount of coal waste slid across a Welsh mining village, a 10-year-old girl called Eryl Maijones, had a premonition saying “ I dreamt I went to school and there was no…
Alice Urbach was an Austrian Jewish cookery writer and teacher who had her own cooking school in Vienna, although she was forced to flee to England in 1938. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau, and her older son, having emigrated to the United States, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis.…
Two Bloomberg Businessweek journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, unravel the deception, expose a £77 million oil tanker insurance claim on the high seas and raise questions of the morality of London Shipping money. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brilliante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates…
Professor Devi Sridhar’s vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable, she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the Covid-19 pandemic including her personal experience as a scientist, and set out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from…
An illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters by the best-selling historian, a Ukrainian now teaching at Harvard, Serhii Polkhy. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, the explosions would rip buildings apart three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and classified…
A chilling tale of the helpless and isolated individuals victimised by a well-funded organisation, and of the lengths to which those running such organisations are prepared to go to cover up their mistakes. Nick Wallis’s revealing tale of the suffering inflicted on blameless individuals seeking to make an honest living in their small shops…
Authoritarian leader has come to dominate global politics ever since the beginning of the millennium when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia. Self-styled strongmen have risen to power in Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington. Everywhere they go, these leaders encourage a cult of personality. How and why did this new style…
The Pandemic saw strong book sales in major developing markets in 2021, with adult and young adult fiction embraced by a vibrant community of readers posting recommendations on the short video app in increasingly competitive attention of the economy. The chances are we will continue to keep buying and reading books as the technology…
Welsh experienced the simultaneous effects of deindustrialization, the subsequent loss of employment and community cohesion, and the struggle with its language and identity. Battle of Relics is a history of the people of Wales undergoing some of the country’s most seismic and traumatic events the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh…