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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. Its his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones hes drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolu...

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NY UTÖKAD OCH AKTUALISERAD UPPLAGA Det brutala ryska överfallet på Ukraina skapade det största hotet mot freden i hela Europa sedan andra världskriget. Med hjälp av nya krigslagar skärpte Putin också det inhemska förtrycket ytterligare, krossade d...

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Turkiet med sina vackra turistorter vid Medelhavet och Svarta havet, sina mytomspunna historiska platser, viktiga handelsleder och stora naturrikedomar skulle kunna vara ett av världens rikaste länder och ett paradis att leva i. Men Turkiet är ett...

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'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph

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Efter att ha manövrerat ut samtliga konkurrenter på 1920-talet härskade Josef Stalin enväldigt, med brutalast möjliga metoder, över Sovjetunionen ända till sin död 1953. Epoken präglades av ett närmast obegripligt förtryck, med svältkatastrofer, o...

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Fourteen women testify to the shocking human rights abuses in Iranian prisons WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore...

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Ministeriet för statssäkerhet, allmänt känt som Stasi, var Östtysklands säkerhets- och underrättelsetjänst. År 1980 hade organisation vuxit till den största underrättelseverksamheten i världen, räknat per capita, och omfattade en rad olika funktio...

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This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any langu...

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This first book on Kim Jong Un's powerful sister, tipped to be his successor, is a readable, jaw-dropping insight into a secretive and murderous dynasty.

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From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the icon...

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'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George Orwell Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "manageri...

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Är Putins Ryssland en diktatur? En totalitär stat? Vad ska man egentligen kalla den regim som Vladimir Putin nu har lett sedan 2000? Putin har under sitt långa maktinnehav förstärkt statens kontroll över näringslivet, över politiken, över massmedi...

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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union wher...

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'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATALIA SOLZHENITSYN A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secre...

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Fourteen women testify to the shocking human rights abuses in Iranian prisons WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore...

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Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a...

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A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I ...

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction A devastating indictment SUNDAY TIMES An important book, a superb piece of reporting OBSERVER With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of hi...

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The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-s...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the outbreak of World War II, O...

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»I denna reportagebok får vi följa en svensk student som riskerade livet i försöken att lura Stasi och arresterades. På köpet får vi hela historien om flykthjälpen och livet i Berlin; synnerligen insiktsfullt berättad.« Hemvärnet När Berlinmuren b...

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It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean, expelled from their homes because they were ...

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Longlisted for the People's Book Prize 2018. At 12.16am on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the kitchen service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. A little over 24 hours later, he was pr...

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Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby, and how did he come to be...

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'I beseech you to read this account' - Christopher Hitchens A magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea. Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentration camp to escape the 'hermit ...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020 A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020 'The Putin book that we've been waiting for' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has s...

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SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Dear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also the gripping story of how a member of the inner circle of this enigmat...

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A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history 'Essential reading' AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows 'Deserves to be read widely' FINANCIAL TIMES If you too...

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A Must-Read Book of 2020 - TIME 'Should be read around the world.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist 'Garza is ferociously smart and laser-focused... her passion is infectious.' Guardian _______________ Black Li...

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