Exile laid bare the lives of listless teenage expats in Tanzania; Revolution shifts the focus to the African & Indian Tanzanians they live among... Moses, a worker in a lethal Tanzanite mine, who risks it all every day in the hope of striking it rich; Rachel, who leaves the countryside to make a living, but finds herself in a city where everyone sees her as a whore in waiting; Shakila, who manages to escape to the States, but not from racial prejudice. This is their reality
- drowning in corruption, the need to graft & scrap, selling their morals & their bodies as needs be. The Africa Trilogy is at once epic & minutely human, because Ejersbo never fails to show compassion for his characters: however corrupted or morally blemished they may become, they are worth a better life.
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Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd`s enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution & ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange`s accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, & England was
- again
- at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart & Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation & parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities & duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished & the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses & playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely & in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns & villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary & unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly & irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies & farmland to one of soot & steel & coal.

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The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. Social media allow ideas to be shared. They are places where people can unite, Revolutions can begin. A new type of Revolution
- Revolution 2.0 Wael Ghonim used to be a man unwilling to publicly criticise the Egyptian regime. Like many, he was silenced by the fear of reprisals. But in January 2011 Wael decided he had seen too much oppression go unchallenged & started a Facebook page calling for the people to protest. It became a rallying-point for revolution & Egyptians took to the streets, while Wael was held by security forces for a horrifying 11 days. In an attempt to quell the revolution the government moved to shut down the internet, fearful of its ability to mobilise the people. It was too late; the people were no longer afraid of making themselves heard. Revolution 2.0 is a unique insider's story from the heart of the Egyptian Spring. Wael Ghonim gives unparalleled insight into why the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression & found a voice.
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“ This is my story about how our baby grew in the shadow of the Tien Shan mountains, we survived a revolution & I learnt to love Bishkek, even though it’s made from concrete & people spit on your feet.” Everybody has a dream, images of the fantasy life they’d lead if not trapped behind an office desk. Saffia Farr’s dream was to live in the sunshine. She didn’t realise it would lead to raising her first child up fifty-eight steps in a Kyrgyz concrete tenement. Saffia had barely heard of Kyrgyzstan when she agreed to move there with her water-engineer husb&, Matthew. Kyrgyzstan is a small country of huge landscapes, a smudge in the vastness of Central Asia. Saffia arrived in the ex-Soviet republic fifteen weeks pregnant, scared about life in a country where people eat sheep eyes, drink fermented mare’s milk & live in felt tents. When Kyrgyzstan descends into anarchy after corrupt parliamentary elections, Saffia is trapped in Bishkek. She witnesses the Tulip Revolution & the violence & insecurity which follow as politicians, mafia gangs, crime lords & Islamic militants exploit the political void. ...

On 23 October, 1956, what began as a mass rally in Bem Square, Budapest, quickly evolved into the Hungarian Revolution. It lasted until 4 November, when the Soviet tanks rolled in. Up to 50, 000 Hungarians & 7, 000 Soviets were killed, & thousands were injured. Erich Lessing, who found himself in the thick of the action, documented the cruelly short-lived revolt & its aftermath in a series of world-famous photographs, reproduced here in stunning duotone. ...

The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd`s enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution & ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange`s accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, & England was
- again
- at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart & Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation & parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities & duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished & the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses & playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely & in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns & villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary & unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly & irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies & farmland to one of soot & steel & coal.

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The bestselling memoir by France`s president, Emmanuel Macron. Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilisation is withering away. That only isolation or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect ourselves from the great transformations taking place around the globe, we should go back in time & apply the recipes of the last century. Others imagine that France can continue on a slow downward slide. That the game of political juggling
- first the Left, then the Right
- will allow us breathing space. The same faces & the same people who have been around for so long.I am convinced that they are all wrong. It is their models, their recipes, that have simply failed. France as a whole has not failed. In Revolution, Emmanuel Macron, the youngest president in the history of France, reveals his personal history & his inspirations, & discusses his vision of France & its future in a new world that is undergoing a `great transformation` that has not been experienced since the invention of the printing press & the Renaissance. This is a remarkable book that seeks to lay the foundations for a new society
- a compelling testimony & statement of values by an important political leader who has become the flag-bearer for a new kind of politics.


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This is the definitive history of the Iran-Iraq war, & revolutionary Iran, essential for understanding the country today. For over 30 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, & sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem. But with Iran`s continuing commitment to a nuclear programme & its reputation as a trouble-maker in Afghanistan, Lebanon & elsewhere, this is unlikely any time soon. The slow demise of the 2009 ` Green Revolution` shows that Revolutionary Iran`s institutions are still formidable. This is the definitive history of this subject, from one of the world`s principal experts. ...

Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. In 2011, at the height of tension between the British & Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London... I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS!!! Please come to my city, Shiraz. It is very famous as the friendliest city in Iran, it is the city of poetry & gardens & wine!!! Your Persian friend, Habib Intrigued, Lois decides to ignore the official warnings against travel (and the warnings of her friends & family) & sets off alone on a 3, 000 mile ride from Tabriz to Shiraz, to try to uncover the heart of this most complex & incongruous country. Along the way, she meets carpet sellers & drug addicts, war veterans & housewives, doctors & teachers
- people living ordinary lives under the rule of an extraordinarily strict Islamic government. Revolutionary Ride is the story of a people & a country. Religious & hedonistic, practical & poetic, modern & rooted in tradition
- & with a wild sense of humour & appreciation of beauty despite the comparative lack of freedom
- this is real contemporary Iran.


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Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. In 2011, at the height of tension between the British & Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London:.. .I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS!!! Please come to my city, Shiraz. It is very famous as the friendliest city in Iran, it is the city of poetry & gardens & wine!!! Your Persian friend, Habib Intrigued, Lois decides to ignore the official warnings against travel (and the warnings of her friends & family) & set off alone on a 3, 000 mile ride from Tabriz to Shiraz, to try to uncover the heart of this most complex & incongruous country. Along the way, she meets carpet sellers & drug addicts, war veterans & housewives, doctors & teachers
- people living ordinary lives under the rule of an extraordinarily strict Islamic government. Revolutionary Ride is the story of a people & a country. Religious & hedonistic, practical & poetic, modern & rooted in tradition
- & with a wild sense of humour & appreciation of beauty despite the comparative lack of freedom
- this is real contemporary Iran.


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