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The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

‘Entertaining and vivid… This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment’ OBSERVER

‘Reads like a thriller’ THE SUN

The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.

Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul

An FT Best Book of the Year

‘Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan – brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible – he transformed the Afghan media landscape and brought serious news, and exceptional entertainment to millions in the most testing circumstances imaginable’ Rory Stewart

Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn’t

Hillary Clinton dominated Amy Chozick’s life for more than a decade. Here, she tells the inside story of Clinton’s pursuit of the US presidency in a campaign book like no other.

‘A breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece’ Mary Karr

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Life in Questions

The witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of University Challenge. Filled with views, opinions and stories from 4 decades in front of the camera.

‘Bursting with good things’ Daily Telegraph

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