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From the hopeful beginnings of Britains entry into the European project to the bitterness of Brexit, Continental Drift is a vivid, personal account of a political life spent at the heart of the European Parliament.As Europes longest-serving MEP, Bill Newton-Dunn offers a front-row view of the shifting tides in Britains often uneasy relationship with its continental neighbours. Spanning the four decades from 1979 to 2020, this lively memoir chronicles the currents of Euroscepticism, internal wranglings of UK delegations and the complex dance between Westminster and Brussels.But Continental Drift is more than political history: it is also rich with behind-the-scenes stories, sharp observations and colourful pen portraits of the characters who shaped Europe, from British premiers and fiery backbenchers to European visionaries and bureaucratic bruisers, not to mention impassioned Communists and rumoured Mafiosi. With dry wit and unsparing honesty, Newton-Dunn brings to life the dramas, debates and diplomatic showdowns that marked a turbulent era.Candid, compelling and frequently funny, Continental Drift is a timely reflection on Britains place in Europe and what was lost when the flag came down.

Nigel Farage is the great disruptor of British politics. Since co-founding UKIP in 1993, he has challenged the status quo in areas including the UKs membership of the European Union, mass immigration and net zero. He is the only person in the modern era to steer two different political parties to victory in successive national elections, topping the poll in the European elections in 2014 with UKIP and in 2019 with the Brexit Party. Now he is attempting to crown that achievement as the leader of Reform UK by sweeping to power at the next general election and becoming Prime Minister.Farage is considered an outsider with a devil-may-care attitude; a populist equally at home on Im A Celebrity and GB News as he is discussing the European Convention on Human Rights. So why is this anti-Establishment figure being spoken of as a future occupant of 10 Downing Street? Can he turn a political start-up into an election-winning machine that appeals to both the left and the right? And could he bring unity to Britain?In this meticulously researched and highly entertaining book, Michael Ashcroft charts Farages extraordinary life before examining Reform UKs advance, its struggles, its impact on British politics and its prospects for electoral success.With unparalleled access to those who know Farage best, Reformation: Nigel Farage and the Rise of Reform UK will help voters judge just how credible is his aim of forming the next government.

Trust in British politics has hit rock bottom. From the extravagant promises of Brexit to the chaos of Partygate and the fallout from Liz Trusss ill-fated premiership, the hidden wiring of government is sparking for all to see. While ministers and civil servants clash publicly, the issues that matter to voters housing, health and social care, the cost of living, climate change go unaddressed. When tragedies like Grenfell or the Post Office scandal occur, accountability is nowhere to be found.Part memoir, part manifesto, Bad Government takes us behind the famous black door to reveal why the ship of state is so hard to steer.As the first female private secretary in No. 10, the author was the only other woman in the room when Margaret Thatcher resigned. Having shaped reforms under both Thatcher and Blair before working to deepen governments connection with civil society, she now offers an unprecedented insiders view of how the system evolved and why it is breaking.Exploring why successive Prime Ministers have failed in their promises to reset government and rebuild trust, this arresting book draws on compelling personal insights into the functioning of No. 10, weaving together thirty years of history with the crises of today.This is a vital look at the urgent need for a different model of government before the electorate loses faith entirely.

The explosive, no-holds-barred account of the life of a globally renowned classical musician, Julian Lloyd Webbers autobiography lifts the lid on a world previously shrouded in mystery.From vivid descriptions of Julians childhood in one of the worlds most famous musical dynasties to unfiltered stories from his collaborations with such stars as Elton John, Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grappelli, Philip Glass, and his brother, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bows and Arrows reveals a cut-throat world of agents, promoters, record companies, violin dealers and substance abuse, laying bare the classical music profession as never before.With refreshing honesty and humour, Julian recounts the break-up of three of his four marriages, his lifelong passion for ensuring that every child should have a chance to play a musical instrument and his devastation at the 2014 injury that forced him to stop playing and sell his Stradivarius cello. This earth-shattering loss, however, led to a new calling, prompting Julians appointment as principal of a leading royal conservatoire and his re-emergence as a tireless champion of music education, working closely with politicians including Gordon Brown, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson.Culminating in Julians return to the stage for the first time in twelve years, this is a powerful story of passion, loss and a life reborn.

A story of faith, fanaticism, and the uncanny power of the imagination.The dawn of the Victorian era: the world is changing rapidly. Poverty and the workhouse cast long shadows across rural England, and a traditional way of life is coming to an end.In the villages and fields of Kent, the discontented find an unlikely champion in John Nicholls Tom. Calling himself Sir William Courtenay, he appears to the local magistrates and gentry as a madman, a charlatan, or a dangerous radical. But for the labouring people he is the New Messiah, come to lead them in a revolt against the forces of oppression, and to herald the end of the world.But equality and wealth redistribution are dangerous ideas, and in May 1838 Toms crusade ignites into bloody violence. The confrontation that follows will shock the country, and become known as the last battle ever fought on English soil.Mad Toms Rising presents an alternative vision of early Victorian England, as a place of mystical religious faith, riot and disturbance, surveillance and insecurity, arson and uproar. Drawing on original sources, it reconstructs the strange and astonishing events of that time, and the lives and experiences of those forever marked by them.

Dallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be downtown, on Main Street. News footage shows office workers leaning out of windows, peering at the motorcade through a blizzard of ticker tape. On the sidewalks, the crowds are fifty deep, a wall of noise and celebration. Everyone thinks this is the place to be.A few blocks away, in Dealey Plaza, the air is different. There is no ticker tape here. The crowds are thin. The only person filming is a dressmaker balanced on a concrete plinth. In this quiet corner, theres a man opening an umbrella even though it isnt raining, a construction worker in a hard hat who claims he was sent here by God, three tramps who stand on the verge of becoming suspects, an unidentified witness known only as the Babushka Lady, and many more.This is not a book about conspiracies or a lone gunman. This is a book about memory, about how we construct our shared history, and about what happens when your life is defined by a single, fleeting moment. Its about a group of real people who opted out of the main event before John F. Kennedy was assassinated, only to find themselves accidental witnesses to the most scrutinised six seconds of the twentieth century.

Henrietta Moraes first discovered Soho when she was eighteen or so she tells us. Her favourite sport was social climbing (heaven knows she enjoyed the exercise) and she was good at it, going to all the right parties and simply gate-crashing others. From the summit of the 1950s bohemian scene she surveyed the life and times of those who broke all the rules, such as the artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon (for whom she became a muse). But thats not all she did as a key counter-culture figure in the 1960s Chelsea Set, no other woman was more indefatigable in becoming a bohemian legend.Through Hen, youll learn how to steal your best friends boyfriend; enchant and ensnare a husband; blossom into a magnificent muse; dress like a comic book superhero; become a connoisseur of every illicit drug known to medical science and dose a Rolling Stones concert with them; join the caravan set and head along the gypsy trail in search of the Holy Grail, before rematerialising as the minder for a mind-blowing pop iconAlong the way youll indulge in the gentle art of cadging drinks; the feline felony of cat burglary; the canny craft of charity shop shoplifting and the haphazardness of steamy sex in second-hand bookshops.Hen, Mistress of Mayhem takes you to the epicentre of Sohos Golden Age; stage by stage it forms a complete guide to a hell-raising companion.

A revealing and controversial exposé of international white-collar crime.Alexander Lebedev continues his investigation of banksters (gangster-bankers) scams which he started in his autobiographical book, Hunt the Banker. Each chapter examines a different sophisticated fraudulent scheme whereby stolen billions are laundered in offshore tax havens and deposited in secret accounts with the major UK and US banks, invested in shares of blue-chip companies, and converted into mansions, yachts, private jets, works of art and luxury goods.The topics covered include the cheating of their customers by supposedly respectable financial institutions in Europe and America, their complicity in laundering illegal proceeds of corrupt officials from all over the world, the financial pyramid schemes of Bernie Madoff and other mega-fraudsters, and black holes in the charity universe.Lebedev investigates the phenomenon of the symbiosis of dirty money and the latest information technologies of the blockchain, which threatens the global financial system with a cryptocurrency apocalypse, and he describes the degradation of political elites inebriated by biased mainstream media and fake news stories.

Non omnis moriar, no todo lo mío morirá. Así lo expresó en un famoso verso el poeta Horacio. Esta es la historia de diez mujeres que escogieron el bando de la libertad y la justicia en los tiempos del Tercer Reich. Venian de diversos paises europeos y de distintas filiaciones politicas, origenes sociales, credos y convicciones. Pero eran valientes, odiaban la tirania y nada las detuvo a la hora de defender, incluso enfrentandose a la deportacion, la tortura y la muerte, la libertad y la dignidad de sus respectivos pueblos sometidos a la atrocidad de una ideologia asesina: el nazismo. Cinco de ellas moririan y otras cinco sobrevivirian y dedicarian el resto de su vida a dar testimonio y mantener viva la memoria, a traves, como diria la resistente Germaine Tillion, "de la fuerza de las palabras". Un lugar siniestro las reunio. En 1939, hasta la liberacion en 1945, las SS establecieron el mayor campo de concentracion de mujeres del III Reich en la poblacion de Ravensbruck, en Alemania. Cinco de estas heroinas pertenecian a la Resistencia francesa: la etnologa Germaine Tillion, la dramaturga Charlotte Delbo, la joven aristocrata Anne de Bauffremont-Courtenay, la brigadista Lise London, y la estudiante y sobrina del lider de la Francia Libre, Genevieve de Gaulle. A ellas se unian una testigo de los campos de concentracion nazis y sovieticos de aquellos dias, la alemana Margarete Buber-Neumann; la periodista checa, y fiel amiga de Kafka, Milena Jesenska; la monja rusa, miembro de la Resistencia francesa, Marie Skobtsova, santa de la Iglesia ortodoxa; la espia britanica Violette Szabo y la poeta polaca Graz?yna Chrostowska, ejecutada vilmente con tan solo veintiun años.

Labours greatest ever Prime Minister is seen afresh in this concise and illuminating account. Attlees government did not simply respond to hardship; it reshaped the state, creating the NHS, extending

Mary Boleyn has long been dismissed as the great and infamous whore - her story overshadowed by scandal and myth. But what if everything we thought we knew about her was wrong?Drawing on newly re-translated original sources and rare archival material, this ground-breaking book peels away centuries of rumour to reveal the true Mary Boleyn. Far from the reckless wanton of legend, she emerges as a woman of ambition, resilience, and intelligence. Through meticulous research and fresh analysis, this book challenges out-dated narratives, uncovering the real extent of Marys relationships with Henry VIII and Francis I, her role in the rise and fall of her younger sister Anne, and her life beyond the royal spotlight.This revelatory biography rewrites Mary Boleyns story - a must-read for Tudor history enthusiasts.

On 13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton walked into the gym hall of a primary school in Dunblane armed with four legally owned handguns and in less than four minutes fired 105 bullets, killing 16 young children, their teacher and injuring many more. It was a crime that first shocked the world then changed the nation.Based on original archival research and exclusive interviews with parents, politicians and police, One Morning in March tells for the first time the incredible and powerful true story of how, in their darkest hour, a band of parents used their grief as fuel in a fight to forever ban handguns in Britain, and create the tightest gun laws in the world.

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed the dawn of a golden age of science, during which time there was a dedicated drive to accurately categorise nature and explain the natural world. Enthusiastic naturalists, amateur and professional, set off to collect and classify plants and animals across the New World, and many of these finds still bear the names of those who discovered them today.In this new and updated edition, The Noble Quest profiles nine notable naturalists of the pre-Darwinian age: early naturalists William Bartram and Alexander von Humboldt; inquisitive aristocrats Charles Waterton and Prince Maximilian of Wied; professional collectors David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend and John Richardson; and the last of the field naturalists Henry Walter Bates and John Wesley Powell.All faced great adventures and hardship as they undertook their groundbreaking work and strived to quantify, categorise and rationally explain the planets flourishing ecosystems.

Dos tempos em que Mequinho foi herói nacional ao mergulho na religião, do xadrez como arma geopolítica na Guerra Fria aos embates paroquiais no interior de São Paulo, estão aqui os lances de uma traj

En el 50 aniversario del golpe de estado en Argentina, Carlo Greppi reconstruye una vida rota por la dictadura.Franca Jarach desapareció a los dieciocho años en Buenos Aires y se convirtió en una de los miles de desaparecidos de la dictadura militar argentina. ¿Quien era y que le paso?Cuando fue secuestrada el 25 de junio de 1976, Franca vivia una vida apacible con sus padres, Vera y Giorgio, judios italianos refugiados tras las leyes raciales. Era una estudiante brillante, hija unica de una familia culta, escribia poesia, tocaba musica y pintaba. Trabajaba como diseñadora grafica, queria ser profesora y estaba involucrada en politica. Pero participar en politica durante la dictadura podia suponer una sentencia de muerte, ya que la oposicion era perseguida y eliminada sistematicamente sin dejar ni rastro. Y ese fue el destino de Franca, una historia mas de los 30.000 desaparecidos tras el golpe militar de Argentina de 1976.Carlo Greppi reconstruye meticulosamente la corta vida de Franca a traves de fotografias, documentos, cartas y entrevistas. Y tambien nos cuenta la historia de Vera: una madre valiente que convirtio su busqueda de la verdad en una lucha colectiva junto con las Madres de Plaza de Mayo que reclamaban justicia para todos los desaparecidos. Despues de siete años de investigaciones, pistas falsas, llamadas de chantaje y apelaciones, un primer atisbo de verdad la llevaria, con los años, a juntar todas las piezas para descubrir que le paso a su hija Franca.

Terapia: una conversación honesar en el aquí y el ahora. La nueva obra de uno de los psicoanalistas de mayor reconocimiento mundial y autor de los bestseller El día que Nietzche lloró y El don de la terapia.Este libro es una conmovedora reflexion en la que Irvin Yalom, uno de los psicoterapeutas mas influyentes de nuestro tiempo, explora su oficio en medio de desafios sin precedentes. A sus noventa años, y tras afrontar una pandemia y el deterioro de su memoria, decidio reinventar su practica: sesiones de terapia unicas de una hora, en las que hallo una libertad inesperada para explorar con sus pacientes las profundidades de la experiencia humana.Con la colaboracion de su hijo, el tambien terapeuta Benjamin Yalom, el autor comparte algunas de estas intensas conversaciones, donde se entrelazan la perdida, la vejez, la compasion y la busqueda de sentido.La hora del corazon es una invitacion a la autenticidad, al encuentro y a la ternura en el dialogo con los demas y, sobre todo, con uno mismo.

Maquiavelo alabó su genialidad militar, su biografía inspiró la primera ópera de Mozart y durante siglos se buscó su elixir contra el veneno. Pero pocas han sido las narraciones completas acerca de la vida de Mitridates el Grande, el rey despiadado y visionario que desafio el poder de Roma en el siglo I a. C. De ahi la relevancia de este libro, en la que Adrienne Mayor combina sus dotes narrativas con los mas recientes descubrimientos arqueologicos y cientificos para contar la historia de Mitridates como nunca antes se habia hecho. Queriendose descendiente de Alejandro Magno y de Dario III de Persia, Mitridates heredo un prospero reino en el mar Negro a los catorce años, despues de que su madre envenenara a su padre. A partir de este nucleo, concibio un gran imperio oriental que rivalizara con Roma y, tras orquestar la matanza de 80 000 romanos en un solo dia, se anexiono Grecia y Anatolia. Protagonista de algunas de las batallas mas espectaculares de la Historia antigua, pugno durante decadas con una Roma que se tomo muy en serio el peligro de este nuevo Anibal, que amenazaba incluso con atacar la propia Italia. Su asombrosa capacidad para evitar ser capturado y rehacerse de devastadoras derrotas desconcertaba a los romanos. Su habilidad para las intrigas y su dominio de los venenos frustraba los intentos de asesinato y servia para deshacerse de cualquier rival. El rey del veneno. Mitridates el Grande, enemigo implacable de Romaes una emocionante biografia de uno de los enemigos mas implacables pero menos comprendidos de Roma.Finalista de National Book Award (nonfiction)Uno de los mejores libros del año (Washington Post)Ganador de Gold Medal in Biography (Independent Publisher Book Award)

Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow presents this chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year.Featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix and many more.Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertosfestivals across the world where we can commune with those we have lost, when spirits can cross over, and when the boundary between the living and the dead is far, far too thin.A young boy encounters a woman with an ancient and terrifying link to the holiday, a group of college students attend a Halloween party to die for, and a troubled girl exploits a local urban legend to try and turn her life around.From America to New Zealand via the rural Romanian wilderness, this anthology explores our worldwide obsession with the spookiest season of the year, when the veil is lifted and the spirits come alive. Featuring 19 original stories from bestselling and award-winning masters of the genre, and from Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, this anthology invites you to carve a pumpkin, light the lanterns and welcome in trick or treaters from across the world. With stories by: Josh Malerman Lee Murray Rich Larson Clay McLeod Chapman Livia Llewellyn Michael Marshall Smith Stephen Graham Jones Linda D. Addison Christopher Golden Alma Katsu Brian Evenson Siobhan Carroll Chkdl Emelmad Theresa DeLucci Garth Nix Jeffrey Ford Richard Kadrey Nathan Ballingrud John Langan

A true story based on a false storyLate one night in February 2018, the award-winning Irish journalist Olaf Tyaransen returned home to find his name trending on Twitter.To his horror, he discovered that Brooke Magnanti - controversial author of the Belle de Jour books - had published an article accusing him of physically and sexually assaulting another woman a few years earlier.Tyaransen had never met Magnanti, and the woman in question had recently died in tragic circumstances. While the allegation was completely untrue, it was already going viral. Hundreds of people were rushing to judgement and sharing Magnantis article.In a painfully honest and compelling memoir, Tyaransen details the emotional, social and professional impact of that false accusation.His lacerating, unflinching account highlights the importance of due process, the mindless cruelty of crowds and the potentially fatal consequences of online vigilantism