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Complete Maus
2003 || Paperback || Art Spiegelman || Penguin
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New YorkerThe Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon ...
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Autocracy, Inc
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
2025 || Paperback || Anne Applebaum || Penguin
The propagandists share resources—the troll farms that promote one dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another—and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.
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Homer and His Iliad
2024 || Paperback || Robin Lane Fox || Penguin
Four Points of the Compass
The Unexpected History of Direction
2025 || Paperback || Jerry Brotton || Penguin
The Making of Europe
Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350
1994 || Paperback || Robert Bartlett || Penguin
A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms. This book shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization, as much as it was later a colonizer, and what this did to shape the continent and the world.
Familiar Stranger / 1st edition
A Life between Two Islands
2018 || Paperback || Stuart Hall || Penguin
'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the leading intellectual lights of his age. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Jamaica, then still a British colony, Hall found himself caught between two worlds: the stiflingly respectable middle class in Kingston, who, in the...
The Eagle and the Hart
The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
2025 || Paperback || Helen Castor || Penguin
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Seneca
A Life
2024 || Paperback || Emily Wilson || Penguin
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality.
The Achilles Trap
Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003
2025 || Paperback || Steve Coll || Penguin