Genna Sosonko 
Smart Chip From St Petersburg 
and other tales from a bygone chess area

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 ” Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopae …

Francis Graham Wilson was a central figure in the revival of interest in political philosophy and American political thought in the mid-twentieth century. While he is best known as a Catholic writer …

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …

Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato”s opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the …

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which …

In this absorbing series of essays Michael Wood probes and plays with the dilemmas of twentieth century fiction – the myth of lost paradise, lost certainties, the suspension between contrary ideals, …

What was known and understood about the nature of the Nazi dictatorship in Britain prior to war in 1939? How was Nazism viewed by those outside of Germany? The British Press and Nazi Germany …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 The riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroads From the start of his stint as RTÉ”s Washington Correspondent Brian O”Donovan”s lively and authori …