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Books Unbound: Editor Phoebe Clapham discusses commissioning current affairs books
Phoebe Clapham, commissioning editor for current affairs books at Yale University Press London, gives us an insight into the fast-paced world of current affairs publishing. Article by Phoebe Clapham One of the joys of commissioning books about current affairs and economics is that it’s impossible to run out of material. News stories rush hard on … Read more
The Forever Wars: Author David Keen discusses how global conflicts are deliberately sustained
David Keen is the author of the controversial new book Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them. Here he discusses conflicts in Sudan, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and investigates the way these conflicts are wilfully sustained and the methods used to perpetuate them. Article by David Keen My book Useful Enemies is really … Read more
Bookshop of the Month: Heywood Hill Ltd, London’s Fashionable Literary Haven
May’s Bookshop of the Month is the beautiful Heywood Hill Ltd. Situated in the heart of Mayfair, this renowned London institution sells new, old and antiquarian books, and played a significant role within London’s burgeoning literary scene in the 1940s. Today we pay a visit to one of the city’s most distinguished booksellers. After more than seventy years … Read more
The Real Dr Dee: Author article by Glyn Parry
Historian Glyn Parry discusses the subject of his new biography The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee, a book which ‘rescues Dr Dee from the shadows of his own secrecy and restored him as a glittering light in the magical Elizabethan firmament’ (Sunday Telegraph). Here Parry unpacks the misinformation, hearsay and slander surrounding this mysterious and influential figure, … Read more
Survivors of the Gulag: Extract from ‘Gulag Voices’ by Anne Applebaum
Published last year to widespread acclaim, Gulag Voices by Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum is a unique collection of writings from survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. In this extract from the book’s introduction, Applebaum provides an overview of the poignant, harrowing and inspirational accounts features in her anthology, and gives some essential context to this … Read more
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