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An anthology of politically committed poetry. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
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Martin Rowson
British satirist and cartoonist Martin Rowson's acerbic chronicles of the evolution-or rather, regression-of politics in the last two decades.
In 1997, on top of his regular visual contributions to the…
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Philippe Sands
The Sunday Times bestselling story of the landmark international judgement that brought an end to Britain's colonial rule in Africa by the author of EAST WEST STREET and THE RATLINE
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Martin Rowson (Author)
From the inimitable Martin Rowson, a modern illustrated retelling of Swift’s classic, Gulliver’s Travels
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Following the success of The Limerickiad volume I, Martin Rowson continues to lower the tone by reducing literary classics to a series of terrible limericks. Mixing Low Comedy and High…
A few months after two of his parents had died, the author had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of…
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Argues that rationally, the whole enterprise of religion is a monumental and faintly ridiculous waste of time and money. But then again, so is pet-keeping. What both do, however, is…
A book of satirical poems and cartoons about the coronavirus pandemic.
A sequence of poems by the award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowqson, reflecting on middle-age, music, art and death in the twenty-first century.
Hans Holbein’s 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great leveller, Death. In a foreboding series…
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A collection of satirical poems about contemporary British literary and intellectual life by award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson.
Explains how and why cartoons work, why they matter and why the reactions of the offended are often an even blunter political weapon than the cartoons themselves.
Marlowe, searching for his dead partner’s killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair, and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, pistol-whipped, framed…
A collection Martin Rowson’s cartoons from the years of coalition
Will Self
It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so…
Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy is one of English literature’s most curious, complex and comic novels and is therefore perfectly suited to the distinctive, anarchic style of the celebrated cartoonist and illustrator Martin…
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Peter Jukes
A factual account of the trial of Rupert Murdoch’s journalists for phone hacking, corruption of officials, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. His favourite editor, Rebekah Brooks, was…
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Telling the story of the landmark international judgement that brought an end to Britain’s colonial rule in Africa, The Last Colony is a riveting, enraging and beautifully rendered history of…
Andrew Gimson
A spirited and entertaining aide-memoire offering 44 short, fascinating accounts of each president bringing the United States’ political history to life as never before. Who can name the eight presidents…
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain’s prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Rowson.
Bob Marshall Andrews
A brilliantly funny guide to how our democracy works or fails to work. What happens when your referendum goes haywire, your election fails to deliver and lies, truth and fake-news…
Paddy McGuffin
Paddy McGuffin turns his bilious wit on a procession of fools, liars, hypocrites and war criminals from David Cameron to the Queen in this collection of his best columns for…
John Sweeney
Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Hamiltons and of Martin Bell going to Westminster.
Islington-dwelling socialist, bike-riding pacifist, green-fingered threat to the status quo: this revolutionary anthology captures the qualities and quirks of the Daily Mail’s worst nightmare.
A graphic novel adaptation of Karl Marx and Frederik Engels’ revolutionary pamphlet on the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth
John Sutherland (University College London)
Take a trip with a renowned literary scholar and critic into the more bizarre areas of literature, miscellany, facts, and trivia … This is the ideal anthology of useless information…
Roland Elliott Brown,FUEL
Drawing on the early Soviet atheist magazines Godless and Godless atthe Machine, and postwar posters by Communist Party publishers, the authorpresents an unsettling tour of atheist ideology in the USSR.
Ben Rowson, Harry Powell, Martin Willing, Michael Dobson, Hannah Shaw
A full colour guide to the species of freshwater snails found in the UK and Ireland.
