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A compendium of the finest writing, including fiction and biography, on and by spies.

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With an expert introduction to each extract, former intelligence officer Michael Smith deftly uses his own experience, and that of his many contributors, to take us on a fascinating journey inside both the real and the imagined world of espionage.

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The Secret Art of Lobbying reveals how professional lobbyists go about their business.

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Comprehensively updated paperback edition of the political bestseller

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In this brilliant, wide-ranging study of lies and lying, Kathleen Wyatt introduces us to a cast of professionals and professional liars, all to help her prove a remarkable thesis: lies hold us together as much as they push us apart and they play a vital role in a healthy society.

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Cumming, who had a wooden leg and tested the character of his young recruits by plunging a paper knife into it, sent Landau to Rotterdam, from where all the British spy networks in Belgium, France and Germany itself were run. Landau's main task was to run La Dame Blanche

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The high-profile death of David Kelly 21 years ago plunged the New Labour government into crisis and led to the resignation of the BBC's Director-General. A judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the government to investigate the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death, cleared it of wrongdoing but was widely dismissed as a w

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Friedman serves up a lucid and truly gripping tale in The End of America The volume contains some of the sharpest criticism of his own country that the American-born journalist has ever written.

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The ultimate insider, Bernard Ingham was Margaret Thatcher's press secretary during her tenure at No. 10. These diaries will come to be viewed as arguably amongst the most important primary source material about her unexpected fall from power.

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A brilliant and varied consideration of one of Britain's best-loved poets, Dylan Thomas.

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Tackling topics as diverse as terrorism, government intrigue and the reality of doing business in Russia, and offering unparalleled insights into the post-Soviet mindset, this is the first time that a figure with Yakunin's background has talked so openly and frankly about his country.

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The Unkown Courier tells the true story of the events that inspired Ben MacIntyre's bestselling Operation Mincemeat. When British Intelligence mislead German High Command by planting a corpse with false top secret plans, it achieved one of the greatest wartime deceptions in history and changed the course of World War Two.

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"It's like the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century," said one former party whip. "You show them the Bible but also the instruments of torture."

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John Sutherland examines the intergenerational conflict as a new kind of 'war' in which institutional neglect and universal indifference to the old has reached aggressive, and routinely lethal, levels.

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Author and academic John Sutherland having confronted the problem of old age now takes an acerbic look at an equally beleaguered age group, the millennial young. The treatment of this age group by assorted British governments may well become the defining political issue of the next two decades.

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A colourful guide to politics over the past four years and the road to Brexit from the pages of The Times.

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In this extraordinary sequel to his bestselling The Welfare State We're In

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In this wry, affectionate, truculent memoir, Sarah Winterton celebrates a brace of MPs renowned for their bloody-minded independence. She goes in to bat, not just for her parents, but for an entire political class. This warts-and-all portrait of an obstreperous English couple also asks challenging political questions.

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An unusual biography of a West Ham Football Club legend, which includes remarkable photos of West Ham heroes from the last thirty years.

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The updated paperback edition of the first major biography of Britain's new Prime Minister. New material will cover her premiership during 2017; from invoking Article 50, her meeting with President Trump to the calling of a snap general election.

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Twenty days after Britain's dramatic vote to leave the European Union, a new Prime Minister has captured Downing Street. Theresa May's task now is to bring together a divided country, at the moment of perhaps its greatest challenge since the Second World War. Theresa May tells the story of one of the most extraordinary people ever to enter No. 10.

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A searing account of the social divisions in contemporary America, and how this led to a Trump presidency.

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The life story of one of Britain's most enduringly popular politicians.