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<p><b>'A necessary book - and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it' Cal Flyn </b></p><p><b><i>What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?</i></b><br/><br/><b>The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war<br/><br/></b>On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days.<br/><br/>Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women's Day despite all odds; Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors; and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook.<br/><br/>Gripping and unforgettable, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in an unprecedented time, when plant workers are left to fight on their own while the world holds its breath. In a book that reads like a thriller, Serhii Plokhy tells a remarkable story about human nature, uncertainty and courage.</p>

Nuclear War [Bok / Pocket]

An African History Of Africa [Bok / Pocket]

<p><b>THE INSTANT <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b></p><p><br/><b>In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.</b><br/><br/><b>'A wonderful book'</b> Rory Stewart<br/><b>'Nuanced and deeply researched'</b> <i>Financial Times</i><br/><b>'Not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times'</b> Peter Frankopan<br/>_____________________________________________________<br/><br/>The British empire was built on slavery, but it also pioneered abolition.<br/>It spread democracy, but it also seeded geopolitical instability.<br/>It devastated nature but it also gave birth to modern notions of environmentalism.<br/>In this urgent sequel to <i>Empireland</i>, award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain to the wider world.<br/><br/>Travelling across outposts of the former empire from Barbados and Mauritius to India and Nigeria and beyond, Sanghera puts to bed the conventional balance-sheet view of imperial history where the good is merely weighed up against the bad. In <i>Empireworld</i>, Sanghera instead seeks out nuance to reveal how contradictory forces of the British empire have shaped our world and what they mean for our place within it today.<br/>_____________________________________________________<br/><br/><b>'An absolute masterpiece'</b> James O'Brien<br/><b>'Puts Sanghera in the firmament of great imperial historians'</b> Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, <i>i </i><br/><b>'Profoundly moving'</b> Elizabeth Day<br/></p>

<p>At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks.<br/><br/>Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse. The historical Faust, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Trithemius and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are all fascinating characters, closely linked to monarchs, artists and soldiers and sitting at the heart of any definition of why the Renaissance was a time of such restless innovation. The study of the stars, architecture, warfare, even medicine: all of these and more were revolutionized in some way by the experiments and tricks of these extraordinary individuals.<br/><br/>No book does a better job of allowing us to understand the ways that magic, religion and science were once so intertwined and often so hard to tell apart.</p>

<p><i>The Book-Makers</i> is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.</p><p></p><p>Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and American Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the early twentieth century and the fifteenth. Others have been forgotten. We don't remember Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and her crucial contribution to the history of type. Nor Charles Edward Mudie, populariser of the circulating library - and the most influential figure in book publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare's First Folio, and then disappeared from history.</p><p></p><p><i>The Book-Makers</i> puts people back into the story of the book. It takes you inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows - from 1492 Fleet Street to 2023 New York. It's a story of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken. <i>The Book-Makers</i> is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and it shows why the printed book will continual to flourish.</p>

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE<br/>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE<br/><br/>'Magisterial' - Max Hastings, <i>The Sunday Times</i><br/>'Monumental'- Rana Mitter, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br/><br/>'Every so often, a new work emerges of such immense scholarship and weight that it really does add a significant difference to our understanding of the Second World War and its consequences. <i>Judgement in Tokyo</i> is one such, a monumental work in both scale and detail, beautifully constructed and written, leaving the reader not only moved but disturbed as well.' - James Holland, <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br/><br/><b>'A work of singular importance . . . balanced, original, human, accessible, and riveting' - Philippe Sands, author of <i>East-West Street</i><br/><br/>'Breathtakingly ambitious and unlikely to be bettered as a portrait of the trials and their place in postwar global history' - <i>History Today</i></b><br/><br/><b>A landmark history of the postwar trials of Japan's leaders as war criminals, and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world.</b><br/><br/>In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For the Allied powers, the trials were an opportunity both to render judgment on their vanquished foes and to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was no more than victors' justice.<br/><br/>Gary J. Bass' <i>Judgement at Tokyo</i> is a magnificent, riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years that set the stage for the postwar era in the Asia-Pacific.<br/><br/><b>'A comprehensive, landmark and riveting book' - <i>The Washington Post</i>, 'The 10 Best Books of 2023'</b></p>