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Matt Hancock served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021, leading the UK government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time, Hancock reveals the crucial moments of the struggle to save lives and the race to develop the vaccine.

This is the little-known story of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the women's branch of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and the vital work they did behind the scenes to ensure the success of some of the most important missions of the war.

Packed with interviews with the legends of the day, this footballing fiesta charts the emergence of Brian Clough, Bob Paisley and Kevin Keegan and the fall of George Best, Alf Ramsey and Don Revie, presenting a vibrant portrait of the most groundbreaking decade in English football history.

In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP.

A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types of deprivation that we once imagined we had consigned to the history books. In Broke, Tom Clark assembles today's masters of social reportage and tasks each with bringing us face-to-face with those at the hardest end of the cost-of-living crisis.

An unputdownable true account of how a tenacious head teacher led one of the most challenging schools in the country to excellence.

In this remarkable and prescient book, Dr Jerome Booth investigates why some of us have abandoned reason, science and history in favour of trite memes, intolerance and hatred.

The Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. In this book, Michael Ashcroft tells the astonishing stories of some of its most courageous and ingenious figures, who have operated all over the world from the First World War to the present day.

Alex Deane began tweeting quirky tales as a distraction from the monotony of lockdown. He has scoured the archives for overlooked figures and events that nonetheless made an impact, and within these pages, they are brought hilariously and often poignantly back to life.

Should Wales leave the UK? In Independent Nation, Will Hayward brings nuance back to the arena for this crucial national conversation. Impartial, informed and thoroughly entertaining, Independent Nation raises the standard of debate around an issue that will affect us all.

No man is an island, wrote John Donne. BBC Home Editor Mark Easton argues the opposite: that we are all islands, and it is upon the contradictory shoreline where isolation meets connectedness, where 'us' meets 'them', that we find out who we truly are.

Picking up where he left off in 2010's Decline and Fall, celebrated diarist Chris Mullin returns with his trademark irreverence and keen eye for the absurd to chronicle the turbulent last decade of the second Elizabethan era. Wise, witty and deeply perceptive, Mullin paints a vivid portrait of our recent political history.

Today anti-Jewish hate crime is rising, Jewish blood is spilt in Europe once more and arguments over antisemitism are increasingly hard to avoid. Everyday Hate reveals the surprising truths about what antisemitism really is, why it continues to thrive and, crucially, how we can all play a part in stopping it.

Marking thirty years since the end of George H. W. Bush's presidency, Robin Renwick paints a warm, affectionate portrait of a President who sought to unify rather than divide his country, and whose staunch belief in diplomacy strengthened cooperation around the world.

For as long as the British royal family has existed, royal children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us. Gilded Youth looks at centuries of royal and aristocratic children misbehaving, often hilariously, and argues that, when it comes to children, the British royal family is still living in the Dark Ages.

The years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain's political landscape for ever. In this wide-ranging and sometimes controversial survey, one of our pre-eminent political historians dispels the popular myths that have grown up about this critical period in Britain's story and argues that it set the scene for much that is laudable about our nation today.

Russia's Road to War with Ukraine is a concise entry-level account of the path to the conflict that now dominates our headlines. It offers an objective and lively narrative, peppered with eye-witness accounts, of the key moments of drama leading to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

A searing account of corruption, racism and mismanagement inside Britain's most famous police force

Revealing how our politicians have reacted during some of the most pivotal events in our recent history, Michael Cockerell's Unmasking Our Leaders provides a compelling insight into a career working in political television and foreign reporting, where tensions, rivalries and life-threatening danger are all part of the package

Engagingly honest about Mitchell's ups and downs in politics, Beyond a Fringe is crammed with hilarious political anecdotes and irresistible insider gossip from the heart of Westminster.