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physical and emotional feeling came to reshape our world today, destabilising governments, and “placing us all on high alert”.


JUSTIN A FRANK TRUMP ON THE COUCH: INSIDE THE MIND OF THE PRESIDENT AVERY, HB, £19.99, 9780735220324 US clinical professor of psychiatry with a full psychoanalytic portrait of President Tump, “America’s most psychologically damaged president yet”.


LEWIS GOODALL LEFT FOR DEAD? THE STRANGE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF LABOUR BRITAIN COLLINS, 6TH, HB, £20, 9780008226695 This début from the political correspondent of “Sky News” is a timely account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, and what it all means for the left in Britain. Drawing on in-depth research, and interviews with both Tony Blair and Corbyn himself, it promises a “wealth of behind-the-scenes revelations” from the 2017 general election.


DOROTHY KEARNS GOODWIN LEADERSHIP: LESSONS FROM THE PRESIDENTS FOR TURBULENT TIMES VIKING, 27TH, HB, £20, 9780241300718 Based on a lifetime of study and insider


knowledge, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian examines what the careers of four great American presidents—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Frank D Roosevelt and Lyndon B Johnson—can teach us about leadership.


BBC Radio 4’s “Week in Westminster”, lifts the lid on the daily life of the MP, asking why we end up with representatives that we are so unhappy with. “A must read for anyone who wants to see a future with better government.”


ISABEL HARDMAN WHY WE GET THE WRONG POLITICIANS ATLANTIC, 6TH, HB, £18.99, 9781782399735 The award-winning political journalist, assistant editor of the Spectator and presenter of


IAN HISLOP & THOMAS HOCKENHULL I OBJECT: IAN HISLOP’S SEARCH FOR DISSENT THAMES & HUDSON, HB, £25, 9780500480410 From 6th-century Babylon to 21st-century US, an eye- catching visual history of dissent through 180 objects selected by Ian Hislop. From badges and shadow puppets to coins and teapots, the objects reveal small acts of disobedience by ordinary people, with messages hidden in plain sight, and provide a reminder of the ways in which people have always subverted concepts of authority. Accompanies a British Museum exhibition (September 2018 to January 2019).


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MICHAEL PALIN EREBUS RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS, 20TH, HB, £20, 9781847948120 In a change of tack, the “Monty Python” stalwart and TV globe- trotter brings one of the greatest of Victorian maritime adventures vividly to life, as he charts the voyages of “HMS Erebus”, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke to its eventual abandonment during John Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition in 1846, and final rediscovery on the seabed in 2014. In a book he travelled widely to research, Palin also incorporates maps, paintings and engravings. Already confirmed as a Radio 4 “Book of the Week”.


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ALAN RUSBRIDGER BREAKING NEWS: THE REMAKING OF JOURNALISM AND WHY IT MATTERS CANONGATE, 6TH, HB, £20, 9781786890931 You don’t have to be a journalist to be riveted by this study of the state of news reporting—how we read it, who controls it, and why it matters. Reflecting on his own career from his days on the Cambridge Evening News to his 20 years as editor of the Guardian, during which time the paper broke such seismic stories as the Edward Snowden revelations and Wikileaks, Rusbridger offers a stirring defence of quality journalism.


IAN HUGHES DISORDERED MINDS: HOW DANGEROUS PERSONALITIES ARE DESTROYING DEMOCRACY ZERO, PB, £12.99, 9781785358807 “Compelling and timely” account of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders which offers a stark warning that the conditions in which such psychopathy flourishes is a hallmark of our age.


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develops the story further, digging deep into the archive and interviewing a selection of the letter writers in a book described as a “history of a country told by its people”. Won by Bloomsbury in a hotly contested auction, the book is now set to be published worldwide with a foreword by Obama himself.


DR PETER LEE REAPER FORCE: THE INSIDE STORY OF BRITAIN’S DRONE WARS JOHN BLAKE, 20TH, HB, £18.99, 9781786069641 Authorised accounts of the RAF’s two drone squadrons, one based in Lincolnshire, the other at a US air base outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Written with the blessing of both the RAF and the Ministry of Defence, it’s the story of “the men and women who can take out an entire group of people from thousands of miles away, and then go home for lunch”.


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the highly regarded young activist and journalist author seeks to humanise the abstractions of the dialogue about global warming, and bring different voices into the conversation.


LEE ELLIOT MAJOR & STEPHEN MACHIN SOCIAL MOBILITY: AND ITS ENEMIES PELICAN, 27TH, PB, £8.99, 9780241317020


Scrutinises how declining social mobility affects us all, and what we can do about it; despite repeated government pledges, Britain still has one of the lowest rates of social mobility in the Western world.


LAURA LOCKER & JULIA SCHEELE AMERICAN POLITICS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY ICON, 6TH, PB, £12.99, 9781785783456 In the same mould as Icon’s Queer: A Graphic History, a useful and idiosyncratic comic book introduction to the political history of the Land of the Free. “Upbeat and optimistic”, it reminds us that “one awful president cannot sink history’s most powerful democracy”. Published ahead of the US mid-term elections.


JEANNE MARIE LASKAS TO OBAMA: DIARY OF A NATION BLOOMSBURY, 18TH, HB, £25, 9781408894521 The last thing Barack Obama did every night throughout his US presidency was to read 10 letters from ordinary Americans. When Laskas wrote about this for the New Yorker, the public response was overwhelming. Here she


DANIEL MACMILLEN VOSKOBOYNIK THE MEMORY WE COULD BE: OVERCOMING FEAR TO CREATE OUR ECOLOGICAL FUTURE NEW INTERNATIONALIST, PB, £9.99,


9781780264400 Drawing on a variety of sources from anthropology to economics, oceanography to history,


MARTIN MOORE DEMOCRACY HACKED: POLITICAL TURMOIL AND INFORMATION WARFARE IN THE DIGITAL AGE ONEWORLD, 27TH, HB, £16.99, 9781786074089 Encompassing data mining, the alt-right, the collapse of local news, Silicon Valley, Trump, trolling and more, this explains how hackers interfere in our democratic processes, and why they can do it, and outlines what we need to do to save democracy for the digital age.


SARAH RAINSFORD OUR WOMAN IN HAVANA: REPORTING CASTRO’S CUBA ONEWORLD, 6TH, HB, £16.99, 9781786073990 The current BBC Moscow correspondent was previously the BBC’s woman in Havana. As the Castro era comes to an end,


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