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...Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester (William Collins) From clay tablets to digital ones, Winchester explores 5,000 years of human...
...Mania by Lionel Shriver (Borough Press/Harper)Never shy of getting stuck in, Shriver now sets her satirical sights on groupthink and the policing of thought....
...Lillian Tsang, data protection specialist at lawyers Harper James, says hospitality businesses must remember these principles even as contact tracing ends....
...Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Spaceby Stephen Walker, William Collins £20/Harper $29.99 To mark the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic space...
...Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire, by Tim Harper, Allen Lane, RRP£35/Belknap Press, RRP$39.95, 864 pages Harper’s magnificent, sweeping study of Asian revolutionary movements...
...Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World, by Samir Puri, Atlantic Books, RRP£20, 384 pages Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, by Sujit Sivasundaram, William Collins...
...She is currently developing a television series based on sisters Jackie and Joan Collins, the former the prolific author of romantic thrillers, the latter a Hollywood actor....
...Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic , by David Frum, Harper, RRP£13.99/$25.99 Some of the most articulate critics of the Trump presidency are disillusioned Republicans like Frum....
...Sarah Sands, editor of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright (William Collins, RRP£16.99/Harper, RRP$27.99) is topical and thoughtful....
...APRIL Fascism: A Warning, by Madeleine Albright, William Collins, RRP£16.99/Harper, RRP$26.99 The former US secretary of state examines the history and modern resurgence of the far right....
...Collins Learning, the education arm of Harper Collins, is preparing to produce an English-language version of Real Shanghai Mathematics after obtaining the rights from Shanghai Century Publishing Group for...
...Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by JD Vance, William Collins, RRP£14.99/Harper, RRP$27.99 Many of those seeking to understand the social and cultural forces that swept Donald...
...Revenues across the group, which also owns Harper Collins, increased from $2.1bn to $2.2bn. That topped expectations for $2.06bn. Net income was $89m, compared with a loss of $379m last time....
...AUGUST … Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99/Harper, RRP$27.99 A Tel Aviv-set novel from the author of The History of Love (2005)....
...The writer is the FT’s chief US columnist Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a family and Culture in Crisis , by JD Vance; Harper Collins, £17.99/$27.99...
...‘A Life in Questions’ (William Collins) is out now Photographs: Jai Stokes; Getty Images...
...Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£30/Harper, RRP$40 Bate’s book started out as a “literary life”, bolstered by huge amounts of research and unfettered access, but...
...Ms Lee’s long silence was finally broken in a fashion this month when HarperCollins published her second novel — Go Set a Watchman, a sequel to Mockingbird, set two decades later in the small-town south...
...Shakespeare in Swahililand, by Edward Wilson-Lee, William Collins, RRP£20 / FSG, RRP$27 (Sept) A Cambridge lecturer raised in Kenya on how Shakespeare has been read in Africa and beyond....
...Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£30 / Harper, RRP$40, 662 pages The fraught background to this important, flawed but ultimately triumphant biography has been a running...
...In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing and the Mysteries of Love, by Joseph Luzzi, William Collins, RRP£16.99/Harper Wave, RRP$25.99, 304 pages...
...Angel Gurría-Quintana Literary non-fiction Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£30/Harper, RRP$40 Bate’s book started out as a “literary life”, bolstered by huge amounts...
...The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth, by Tom Burgis, William Collins, RRP£20/PublicAffairs, RRP$27.99 The book’s thesis is conveyed by its subtitle...
...“The Sharp Project is a concentrated version of the city and its ethos,” says Laura Harper, a partner at Shoosmiths solicitors, which works for many of the start-ups....
...Paula Byrne’s ‘The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things’ is published by Harper Press on January 17...
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