Orwell's Ghosts
Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century
ISBN: PB: 9781805264392,
ISBN: HB: 9781911723028,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2025
240 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
240 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography
Book of the Year from the New Yorker and BBC History Magazine
Seventy-five years after 1984 first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce "Orwellian" untruths by Trump, Johnson...
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14.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Crimean Quagmire
Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare
ISBN: HB: 9781911723639,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2024
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The intriguing story of how two revolutionary writers, and their pioneering war reporting, changed the way we think about conflict.
The Crimean War was the greatest international crisis of the Victorian era, and a modern war of rifles, railroads and...
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27.50 GBP
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Travel Writing Tribe
Journeys in Search of a Genre
ISBN: PB: 9781787388284,
ISBN: HB: 9781787384705,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2022
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021
A writer sets out to find the truth about his own genre, from Orientalism and falsehoods to today's new voices.
Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writ...
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Death of Camus
ISBN: PB: 9781787383869,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2020
184 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
184 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
Was the car crash that killed Camus a KGB plot?
In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year...
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14.99 GBP
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Men at War
What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From the Iliad to Catch-22
ISBN: HB: 9781849042895,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2014
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In "Men at War" Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on o...
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27.50 GBP
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Afghanistan in Ink
Literature Between Diaspora and Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781849042048,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2013
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
"Afghanistan in Ink" uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sought to dominate the ideol...
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35.00 GBP
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History of Indian Literature in English
ISBN: PB: 9781850656814,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2003
450 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
450 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For anyone interested in the story of English in India, or in the finest English storytellers of India, this book, an illustrated history of two hundred years of Indian literature in English, should be a useful companion. It discusses the canonical p...
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45.00 GBP
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