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Janusz Korczak

King Matt The First

‘Children! I, Matt the First, appeal for your help in carrying out my reforms’Little Matt becomes King Matt when he …

Leszek Kolakowski

Is God Happy?

In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem …

Anne Applebaum

Iron Curtain

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe …

Anne Applebaum

Gulag

This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the …

Roger Moorhouse

First to Fight

A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian …

Stanislaw Lem

Fiasco

There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'The planet …

Anne Applebaum

Between East and West

For a thousand years, the geography of Europe's borderlands had dictated their destiny. East of Poland, west of Russia, the …

Leszek Kolakowski

Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? …

Norman Davies

White Eagle, Red Star

Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red …

Anne Applebaum

Twilight of Democracy

A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, …

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Travels with Herodotus

Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with …

Jack Fairweather

The Volunteer

One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- …