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The Shortest History of Democracy

Emma — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The shortest history of India

Emma — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

From the tantalising traces of ancient Harappan civilisation to today's emerging superpower, here is India's story, expertly condensed and brimming with colour. John Zubrzycki transforms five millennia of gods and kings, conquerors and colonisers into an epic tale, teeming with personalities both legendary and largely unknown outside India. Gautama Buddha, Alexander the Great and Gandhi share the stage with Nizam Saqqa, the slave made king for a day, and Raziyya, the first Muslim woman to rule the subcontinent. The later chapters reveal a modern India riven by contrasts: the brutal reality of partition and the fantasies of Bollywood, the call centres and the expanding slums. Five thousand years of history are no guarantee of the future, and as he concludes his story, Zubrzycki asks whether internal challenges could thwart India's rise to dominance.

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

Emma — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Shortest History of Greece

Emma — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Geography made Greece a vital lever between East and West, but it was the Greeks themselves, over the course of three millenia, who turned leverage into a political art-form which shaped the history of the world. Meanwhile, today's Greece - battered by austerity measures, a transit camp for the casualties of the Middle East, yet still defiantly proud of its values - may yet point the way ahead, like a modern oracle.

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

Emma — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Brilliant Isles

Emma — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A companion book to the landmark BBC television documentary series to be broadcast from April to June 2022, 'Brilliant Isles' tells the turbulent story of British creativity through 80 stunning works of art, music, literature and architecture.

The Shortest History of England

Emma — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Shortest History of England

The Shortest History Of War

Emma — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Godmother

Emma — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A widowed French mother of two who works as a translator of police wiretaps of North African hashish dealers, while quietly skeptical of the institutional racism of this effort, takes up the opportunity to participate lucratively in the illegality before her after the French state scrimps on her pension. A topical and entertaining winner of two major French prizes for crime fiction.