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04/09/2026

03/09/2026

🇺🇸🇷🇺Has Russia brought about regime change in the USA?

Congratulations Keir Giles, American Overthrow: Moscow’s Endgame in Its Long War with Washington publishes today!👏

‘A fascinating view of American politics through the eyes of an observer intimately familiar with Vladimir Putin’s Russia … an impressively detailed list of parallels.’ — Financial Times

‘It should make readers of all political persuasions think twice about American politics.’ — Anne Applebaum

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27/08/2026

‘A fascinating view of American politics through the eyes of an observer intimately familiar with Vladimir Putin’s Russia ... an impressively detailed list of parallels.’ 👏👏

Read the brilliant review of American Overthrow by Keir Giles in Financial Times🗞️

Could Putin win in Ukraine? Has the Kremlin captured US politics? Three new books analyse Moscow’s strategy and vision of itself as a Eurasian empire

11/08/2026

Four organisations have been awarded Mo Siewcharran grants in its second 2026 round, including non-fiction independent press Hurst Publishers. 👇

05/08/2026

Be sure to submit your application to our Publicity & Marketing Trainee position before 23.59 on 9th August!

We are delighted to have received support from the Mo Siewcharran Memorial Fund via Creative Access to recruit an enthusiastic team-player with an interest in global affairs. 🌍🗞📚 This opportunity is open to Black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates.

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05/08/2026

📰✍️'According to Tertitskiy, who, along with his mentor, Andrei Lankov, is among the world’s leading authorities on the subject, the DPRK was an unambiguously Soviet product.'

Read the review of Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim-Il Sung in London Review of Books

Vol. 48 No. 14 · 13 August 2026Beyond the 38th ParallelEd PulfordShare on BlueskyShare on FacebookShareEmailPrint 2903 words Forever President: A Biography of Kim Il-sung by Michael J. Seth. Reaktion, 288 pp., £20, September 2025, Show More Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung by Fyodo...

29/04/2026

💬‘A timely — and hopeful — analysis of the global erosion of democracy.’

Read the review of John Keane’s Demagogues and Despots: Democracies on the Brink in the Sydney Morning Herald👇

Professor John Keane of Sydney University explains how democracy and despotism live closer together than you’d expect.

26/03/2026

What a wonderful start to Carla Kaplan’s UK tour for Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford! 🎉

Last night at Hatchards Piccadilly with Baroness Helena Kennedy and the Biographer’s Club, this evening at the London Library, and Oxford Literary Festival and Asthall Manor (the Mitfords' family home) on the weekend!

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18/03/2026

🇮🇷 Find a reading list on Iran—its history, politics and people—and America's entanglements in the Middle East here 👇

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12/03/2026

Congratulations, Paul Brummell, Voices in Stone is out now! 👏

‘From that old geezer on a prancing horse to that over-endowed recumbent lady, it will have you examining statues with delight. Buy the book: it’s glorious.’ — Dame Prue Leith

An absorbing, funny and enlightening read. I will never look at statues in quite the same way again.’ — Dame Menna Rawlings

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