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LABOUR’S CIVIL WARS How Infighting has kept the Left from Power (and what can be done about it)
Patrick Diamond Giles Radice £16.99 May 2022 Politics | British History Trade Hbk, 148×210mm | 240 pages p: 978-1-913368-59-3 e: 978-1-913368-60-9
A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party’s history of ideological division The biblical adage that ‘if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand’ remains sound theological advice. It is also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. Though both major parties have been subject to internal conflict over the years, the Labour Party has been more given to damaging splits. The divide exposed by the Corbyn insurgency is only the most recent example in a century of destructive infighting. Indeed, it has often seemed as though Labour has been more adept at fighting itself than defeating the Tory party. This book examines the history of Labour’s civil wars and the underlying causes of the party’s schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing battle for the future between the incumbent, Keir Starmer, and those who fundamentally altered the party’s course under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.
patrick diamond is associate professor of public policy at Queen Mary University of London. He was senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister (2001–05) and head of policy planning in 10 Downing Street (2009–10).
giles radice is a former MP and now Labour
member of the House of Lords. NEW
THE WORM IN THE APPLE A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron
Christopher Tugendhat £20.00 March 2022 Politics | British History Royal Hbk, 156×234mm | 256 pages p: 978-1-913368-53-1 e: 978-1-909961-54-8
‘A masterful injection of sanity into this timeless argument.’ —Simon Jenkins The Conservative Party has been in power for forty-seven of the sixty-five years since the end of the Second World War. During that time, the divisions within the party over Europe have been an enduring drama of British politics – from Churchill’s decision not to join the original European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 to Cameron’s decision to hold an In/Out referendum in 2016. Other leaders came and went, but the issue was always there, destabilising foreign policy, corroding the body politic, and destroying several of the party’s leaders. These questions – the worm in the apple – turned the Conservative Party and, by extension, a significant section of the electorate against British membership of the EU. Christopher Tugendhat’s history of the drama is essential to understanding how it was that the party that took Britain into Europe under Heath became the party that led the way out in the referendum.
christopher tugendhat
was a leader-writer for the Financial Times. He served as a
member of the European Commission for nine years and was later chairman of Chatham House before being appointed to the House of Lords by John Major.
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WALKING PEPYS’S LONDON Jacky Colliss Harvey £9.99 June 2022 Travel | British History B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 220 pages 5 maps p: 978-1-913368-82-1 e: 978-1-913368-29-6
‘Invites us to step into Pepys’s shoes’ —The Telegraph ‘It is as good a book of its kind as one could hope for, and I urge anyone with a fondness for Pepys to buy it’ —Times Literary Supplement With Walking Pepys’s London, the reader will come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was almost as much a character in Pepys’s life as his family or friends, and the book draws many parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Colliss Harvey’s new book reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of the past, bringing geography, biography, and history into one. Full of fascinating details and written with extraordinary sensitivity, Walking Pepys’s London is an unmissable exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.
jacky colliss harvey is a writer and editor. She has worked in museum publishing for the past twenty years, is the bestselling author of RED: A History of the Redhead, and writes historical fiction as J. C. Harvey.
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REGICIDE The Trials of Henry Marten
John Worthen £20.00 March 2022 Biography | British History Royal Hbk, 156×234mm | 240 pages 15 b/w illustrations p: 978-1-1913368-35-7 e: 978-1-913368-36-4
‘A convincing portrait of the later years of one of the most remarkable radical politicians in British history’ —Ronald Hutton, author of The Making of Oliver Cromwell Henry Marten – soldier, MP, organiser of the trial of Charles I and signatory of the King’s death warrant – is today a neglected figure of the seventeenth century. Yet his life was both extraordinary and emblematic: he was at the fulcrum of English history during the turbulent years of the Civil War, the Protectorate, and the Restoration. Imprisoned in the Tower of London and tried at the Old Bailey, Marten was found guilty of high treason, only to be held captive for years on the equivalent of death row. In this revelatory biography, Marten emerges as a brilliantly clever, lively-minded man, free of the fundamentalist zeal of his republican contemporaries. Marten never abandoned his beliefs in equality or in a representative parliament under a constitution and in that way can be seen as a very modern man.
john worthen is a biographer and historian. Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham from 1994–2003, he is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Schumann.
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THE SERPENT COILED IN NAPLES Marius Kociejowski £20.00 May 2022 Travel Writing | Italy Royal Hbk, 156×234mm | 464 pages p: 978-1-909961-81-4 e: 978-1-909961-80-7 63 b/w illustrations Imprint: Armchair Traveller
‘The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the magic of this extraordinary city.’ —Katherine Wilson, author of Only in Naples In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new ‘destination’ in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see, the stories behind them have remained largely hidden – until now. In Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things – Vesuvius, the mafia-like Camorra, the outlying Phlegraean Fields. It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves. Naples is simultaneously a city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and a city of darkness, although often the stuff of cliché. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.
marius kociejowski is a poet, essayist, and travel writer. Among the books he has written are The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey and a sequel, The Pigeon Wars of Damascus. He lives in London, where, until recently, he worked as an antiquarian bookseller.
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CHAUCER'S ITALY Richard Owen £12.99 April 2022 Travel | Biography | Italy B-Format Hbk, 129×198mm | 208 pages p: 978-1-909961-83-8 e: 978-1-913368-84-5 Imprint: Armchair Traveller
‘Very readable and well paced, it covers an amazing amount of ground.’ —Marion Turner, author of Chaucer: A European Life Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. Without the tremendous influences of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of The Canterbury Tales might never have assumed his place as the ‘father’ of English literature. Nevertheless, Richard Owen’s Chaucer’s Italy begins in London, where the poet dealt with Italian merchants in his roles as court diplomat and customs official, before his involvement in arranging the marriage of King Edward III’s son Lionel in Milan and diplomatic missions to Genoa and Florence. Scrutinising his encounters with Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the mercenary knight John Hawkwood, Owen reveals the deep influence of Italy’s people and towns on Chaucer’s poems and stories. Much writing on Chaucer depicts a misleadingly parochial figure, but, as Owen’s enlightening short study of Chaucer’s Italian years makes clear, the poet’s life was internationally eventful. The consequences have made the English canon what it is today.
richard owen was The Times Rome correspondent for fifteen years. He has written several works of non-fiction, including Crisis in the Kremlin and, with Haus, DH Lawrence in Italy and Hemingway in Italy. NEW
A SHORT HISTORY OF BEIJING Jonathan Clements £9.99 February 2022 History | China B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 245 pages 2 maps p: 978-1-913368-46-3 e: 978-1-913368-47-0
Updated and fully revised paperback edition with a new introduction Before China’s capital became a sprawling megacity and international centre of business and culture, its fortunes fluctuated under a dozen dynasties. It has been a capital for several states, including those headed by Mongolian chiefs and the glorious Ming emperors. A Short History of Beijing tells the story of this remarkable city, from its more famous residents – Khubilai Khan, Marco Polo, and Chairman Mao – right up to the twenty-first century, as modern construction wipes out so much of the old city to make way for its growing population of twenty million. This first paperback edition includes a new introduction and a section on Zhangjiakou, the site of many 2022 Winter Olympics events.
jonathan clements is an author and presenter specialising in the history of the Far East. He has been a consultant and appeared as an expert on Asian history in the TV programmes Secret History and Nova. His most recent book is The Emperor’s Feast: A History of China in Twelve Meals.
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PARTITION How and Why Ireland was Divided
Ivan Gibbons £9.99 February 2022 British and Irish History | Geographical History B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 198 pages 2 maps p: 978-1-913368-45-6 e: 978-1-913368-02-9
‘An excellent exposition of how the border came into existence… a short, very readable and clear overview.’ —Times Literary Supplement ‘Notable for [its] attention to detail.’ —Financial Times The Government of Ireland Act in 1921 and the tumultuous events of the two years that followed would have significant ramifications, both in the short term and throughout the twentieth century, as the republican view of the division as an artificial, illegitimate border imposed by the British became entrenched. Our view is now clouded by the complex history and struggles of the century that followed, but Partition takes us back to the first decades of the 1900s. Gibbons tells us how the idea of dividing Ireland came about, how it gained acceptance and popular support, about its complex and controversial implementation, and about the turmoil of the years that followed.
ivan gibbons is a lecturer in modern Irish and British history and he was programme director in Irish Studies at St Mary’s University.
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THE VIEW FROM THE HILL Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain
Christopher Somerville £16.99 Walking | Nature Trade Hbk, 148×210mm | 408 pages p: 978-1-909961-76-0 e: 978-1-909961-79-1 Imprint: Armchair Traveller
‘Somerville is a walker’s writer. The countryside has never been more inviting and this is the book to make you reach for your rambling shoes.’ —Nicholas Crane ‘From the enforced hibernation of the lockdown year, Somerville turns his vision to forty years of wandering. With precision, clarity, depth and curiosity, these recollections lead us down the pathways of a lifetime.’ —Nick Hunt ‘Somerville is a great wordsmith and could write about mud and make it interesting.’ —The Times ‘Like all the best nature writers, he’s able to evoke an entire landscape with the lightest of touches.’
—Daily Mail ‘It’s a joyous wander right across the British Isles, revelling in rich landscapes and marvelling at the wildlife.’
—Hiking Historian
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AFGHAN NAPOLEON The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud
Sandy Gall Introduction by Rory Stewart £25.00 Biography | History Royal Hbk, 156×234mm | 346 pages 38 colour illustrations, 2 maps p: 978-1-913368-22-7 e: 978-1-913368-23-4
‘A remarkable and emotionally affecting portrait of one of the most successful and brilliant soldiers of the modern world and a magnificent statesman.’ —John Simpson ‘Sandy Gall’s knowledge of the jihad is encyclopaedic. He was the first well-known journalist to make the dangerous journey into occupied Afghanistan and bring the human cost of this terrible war to our TV screens.’ —The Spectator ‘An extraordinary story.’ —Telegraph ‘This book is essential reading for those who want an insider’s understanding of the Afghan civil war.’ —Literary Review ‘Gall weaves analysis, first-hand reporting, and primary sources into a brilliant and important book.’ —Jeremy Bowen
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