Prison Diaries
The Rebel Who Founded a Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781787383999,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An unflinching account of life in a Pakistani prison by a founding leader and the first elected prime minister of Bangladesh.
Born in 1920, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman studied law. One of the founders of the Awami League in 1949, he later led his party...
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20.00 GBP
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Buried Man
A Life of H. Rider Haggard
ISBN: HB: 9781911723752,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
672 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
672 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A thoroughly researched biography of the influential and bestselling author of "King Solomon's Mines", shining light on his formative years in South Africa.
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), author of "King Solomon's Mines", "Allan Quatermain" and "Sh...
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65.00 GBP
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Accidental Tyrant
The Life of Kim Il-sung
ISBN: HB: 9781911723547,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 50 illus.
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 50 illus.
A masterful new biography of North Korea's despotic founding father and his enduring impact on his country today.
Kim Il-sung was the enigmatic architect of North Korea. His life is an extraordinary tale of improbable success: once a barely educated...
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25.00 GBP
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Heaven Does Not Block All Roads
A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao
ISBN: HB: 9781911723622,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A hundred-year history of the challenges and triumphs of contemporary Taiwan, through the inspiring true story of one man who lived through it all.
Huang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese Empire. By the time he...
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25.00 GBP
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Stranger in My Own Land
Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home
ISBN: PB: 9781911723882,
ISBN: HB: 9781787387812,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2024
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 88 illus.
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 88 illus.
As seen in The Guardian Long Read
A moving exploration of belonging in a contested homeland, from a Palestinian writer and citizen of Israel.
After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Isr...
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General Hastings "Pug" Ismay
Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat: A New Biography
ISBN: HB: 9781911723202,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2024
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 28 illus.
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 28 illus.
A biography of the unsung general at Churchill's side throughout the Second World War, instrumental in events from Indian and Pakistani independence to the establishment of NATO.
General Lord Ismay's name is little known today, but he participate...
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35.00 GBP
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Saffron "Modernity" in India
Narendra Modi and his Experiment with Gujarat
ISBN: HB: 9781849044295,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician to be elected three times to the helm of one of the states of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest incumbency in the state's history. Mo...
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30.00 GBP
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Girl Prince
Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax
ISBN: HB: 9781805260066,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2023
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 illus.
A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy.
In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masq...
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20.00 GBP
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Iconoclast
Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
ISBN: PB: 9781805260370,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383104,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2023
504 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
504 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A revealing profile of Japan's longest-serving prime minister and his controversial legacy.
Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as pri...
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18.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Fugitive of Empire
Rash Behari Bose, Japan and the Indian Independence Struggle
ISBN: HB: 9781805260424,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2023
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 20 illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 20 illus.
A lively biography of an important Indian revolutionary, from his attempted assassination of the Viceroy to his anti-imperialist activities in exile.
In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement...
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25.00 GBP
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