Political

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.

The Prisoner is the much-anticipated sequel to Persephone Books’ bestselling title, Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. It is now August 1933, and the deadly fervour of Hitler’s Nazi regime continues to spread across Germany. Michael Reader, a young Englishman, decides to visit his friends the...

The Viking raiders' devastation has been halted once more by the shields of Mercia as opposed to Wessex. But their whereabouts are unknown. King Wiglaf of Mercia is keen to ensure the Viking raiders are swept from his shared border with Wessex but these Viking ships are quick and difficult to track and Icel is once more deployed with Ealdorman Ælfstan warriors to do his King's bidding. However, Icel's quest is beset with many more obstacles and it's not all about the seax and shield. Worrying news from home overshadows Icel's every deadly encounter.

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening. But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop.

Full-cast productions of five plays by the celebrated Russian author, plus a reading of one of his most famous short stories Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, known under his pseudonym Maxim Gorky, was one of Russia's greatest Soviet writers and the founder of the ‘socialist realism’ literary...

Lauréat du Booker Prize 2025 On sent en refermant ce roman grandiose que quelque chose d'important est arrivé à la littérature. Elle Impressionnant.Le Figaro Grandiose. L'évènement de cet hiver. Elle Dès les premières pages, on est sûr de tenir entre ses mains un grand livre. Les Echos...

I survived the War of Cinders to live a quiet life, but corrupt politicians won’t leave us alone. To secure Aerenvale’s future, my beautiful elven companions and I are traveling to the capital to claim a county of my own. But Irendale is a pit of vipers and beneath the noble estates lies a rotting secret. I didn’t come to the capital to fight another war, but I’ll do whatever is necessary to protect what is mine. And hey, there’s the added advantage of seeing the girls in their most elegant dresses while we maneuver through the politics.

The #1 bestselling author, popular Fox News host, and former White House press secretary, Dana Perino, reaches new heights with her first novel—a smart, politically and romantically charged story where red meets blue, and love is never black and white. Dorothy “Dot” Clark, a buttoned-up PR...

Flavius Maximus has declared himself emperor and crossed into Gaul. The civil war with Gratian has been short, and the rightful ruler of the West lies in an early grave. Now two men face off across an empire. Theodosius in the east, his armies large but reliant on mercenaries. Maximus in the west, his forces small, but battle hardened and loyal to a fault. In the middle of the chaos, at the heart of a dying world, two old friends march at the heads of opposing forces.

A conspiracy runs deep. A betrayal runs deeper. Micah Miller is a former army ranger, a fallen priest, and now a mercenary with nothing left to lose. When the Vatican entrusts Micah to lead a perilous mission, he's thrown into a web of deception that leads straight to the White House. Teaming up with Safra Bennett, one of Mossad's best intelligence operatives, Micah must unravel a sinister plot before thousands die in an attack designed to plunge the world into chaos. But the deeper they dig, the more they realize that the enemy isn't just hiding in the shadows-he's controlling them.

Un thriller político absorbente, crudo y actual, que se adentra en las cloacas del poder y en las heridas más íntimas de quienes se atreven a mirar lo que nadie quiere ver. Una tesorera recién llegada al corazón del partido del Gobierno. Un periodista brillante que vive al límite...

Versión ePub. Presenta el contexto histórico de la ONU, la Liga de las Naciones que la precedió, la postura republicana a largo plazo en contra de ella y la de los demócratas a favor. Una lectura imprescindible en la cuarta era con Donald Trump al mando. El título fue traducido parcial o...

Über Nacht verändern sich die Straßen von Wolnopol: Dünen wehen über die Promenade, künstlich anmutende Wirbelstürme reißen Schneisen durch die ukrainische Küstenstadt. Inmitten dieses Chaos macht Maksym Karriere – als Dealer von synthetischen Drogen. Sein Großvater Bohdan, der den Gulag überstanden hat, bringt ihm Schach bei und zitiert Puschkin. Seine Mutter Nadia, Herzchirurgin des Städtischen Klinikums, traut weder Staat noch Menschen. Doch während die Stadt im Sand zu verschwinden droht, gerät auch die Familie ins Wanken.

FBI Special Agent Nathan Burke expected a routine prisoner transport. Instead, he finds an airplane full of corpses and his most wanted terrorism suspect gone without a trace. The investigation plunges him into an international manhunt for Imam Omar Yemeni, a man whose network runs deeper and...