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  • The Lost Child of Philomena Lee

    A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search

    The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Litvinenko File

    On 7 December 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone’s throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world’s most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Putin and the Return of History

    How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

    An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance - a hubris that ... Read more

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  • Despots

    "Gripping, terrifying, urgent, necessary." - Ian Rankin"Anyone who cares for democracy and freedom, and who fears for the future of both, should go and read this book." - Jonathan DimblebyLong Live the King.Since his re-election as US president, Donald Trump has made good on things he only dreamed of accomplishing in his first term. He has smashed constitu... ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • The War of Nerves

    Inside the Cold War Mind

    A major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures—not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears.Drawing on a vast array of untapped ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Russia Conundrum

    How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit--and How to Fix It

    **An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin’s Russia, by a former Kremlin insider."I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close... ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • Philomena (Movie Tie-In)

    A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

    New York Times BestsellerThe heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Litvinenko File

    The Life and Death of a Russian Spy

    On December 7 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Putin's Oil

    The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia

    This title investigates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos. "Putin's Oil" investigates the complex world of Kremlin politics, including conspiracies and conspiracy theories, allegations that Roman Abramovitch plotted with Putin to destroy Khodorkovsky, suspicions of betrayal and double agents in the Kremlin and in ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Russia: The Wild East

    The complete BBC Radio 4 series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    Power struggles have a constant presence in Martin Sixsmith’s story of Russia. Collected here in 50 episodes, he chronicles the Mongol hordes invading in the 13th century, through the iron autocratic fists of successive Tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia’s re-emergence as a superpower.Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great – all left their mark on a nation that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Russia Conundrum

    How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit--and How to Fix It

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 37 min

    **An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin’s Russia, by a former Kremlin insider."I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close... ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Philomena

    A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

    Narrated by John Curless ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 33 min

    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a " fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD