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Showing 5 book covers for 'America's Middle East', 'American Overthrow', 'The Shah's Party', 'From Gulf to Global,' and 'Russia and Iran.' All on a black background.

The fast pace of the Iran war has expanded the conflict so we've updated our rdg list: tinyurl.com/4hhw3dce Find context for the recent revelations of Russia providing intelligence to Iran, the mindset of Hezbollah, the American escalation in the region, the role of Qatar as mediator, & more.

Robert D. Kaplan looking into the camera next to a mockup of his book ‘Waste Land.’ The cover of the book features photos of children wading through water carrying belongings on their heads, and of destroyed machinery. There is white lettering for the author name, title and subtitle and text that reads ‘provocative and wide-ranging — The Sunday Times.’

OUT IN PB IN SEPTEMBER 🗓️

A @thetimes.com Book of the Week
A @financialtimes.com Book to Read

'Waste Land' by Robert D. Kaplan is the darkly brilliant, wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies.

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Elizabeth Buchanan smiling into the camera, next to a mockup of her book, ‘So You Want to Own Greenland?’ The cover of the book features a red boat in the Arctic Ocean, approaching icy mountains. There is red, blue, black and white writing for the title, subtitle, author name and a label that reads ‘new edition’.

OUT IN JULY 🗓️

Forthcoming paperback with an updated preface 'So You Want to Own Greenland' by Elizabeth Buchanan

'The textual equivalent of sitting down for a beer with someone who just happens to be an expert on Arctic security.' —
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social

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Christopher Hale standing in front of a large building with lots of foliage and looking to the left, next to a mockup of his book ‘The Great Groundnut Fiasco’. The cover has a sand-coloured background and green detailing of grass, trees, and a tractor, and there is an image of peanuts in the middle. There is black and cream lettering for the title, subtitle and author name.

OUT JAN 2027 🗓️

In 'The Great Groundnut Fiasco', Christopher Hale reveals the fascinating story of Labour's efforts to feed post-war Britain by leveraging its African colonies—and the enduring political consequences of the Scheme’s failure.

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David M. Sacks looking into the camera next to a mockup of his book, ‘The Realist’. The cover features an archival photo of Hans Morgenthau giving a speech, and white and green writing for the author name, title and subtitle.

OUT IN NOVEMBER 🗓️

'The Realist' by David M. Sacks is the first biography of Hans Morgenthau, the theoretician who escaped Nazi Germany and pioneered the ‘realist’ approach to international relations, now resurgent in global politics.

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Keir Giles looking into the camera, standing against a wooden wall, next to a mockup of his book, ‘American Overthrow’. The cover of the book features the US presidential seal with the central image replaced with the coat of arms of Russia. There is red and black writing for the author name, title and subtitle, and there is also a line that reads ‘author of ‘Who Will Defend Europe?’.

OUT IN SEPTEMBER 🗓️

'American Overthrow' by @keirgiles.bsky.social is the disturbing account of Moscow’s ideological capture of the American ruling elite, the consequences of which are only now coming to light.

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Pat Yale smiling and looking into the camera in front of a blue background, alongside a mockup of her book, ‘The Bosphorous’. The cover of the book features a boat making waves through water, and behind the waves there are images of great Turkish architecture. There is white and orange lettering for the author name, subtitle and title.

OUT IN JANUARY 2027 🗓️

'The Bosphorus' by @patyale.bsky.social is the evocative portrait that brings to life how the crossroads of trade and culture, the boundary between East and West, is a waterway like no other.

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Myra Macdonald looking into the camera, stood in front of a grassy area, alongside a mockup of her book, ‘Threads of Destiny’. The cover of the book features the ‘teardrop’ pattern typical of the ‘paisley’ style, in front of an archival drawing of Paisley in Scotland. There is pink and green lettering for the title, subtitle and author name.

OUT IN SEPTEMBER 🗓️

From journalist Myra MacDonald, 'Threads of Destiny' explores empire, fashion and technology in a pathbreaking history of the renowned pashmina shawl and the concurrent lives of weavers in Scotland and British India.

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Ayesha Harruna Attah looking to the right and wearing a stripey blue top, next to a mockup of her book, ‘Bitter Sweet’. The cover of the book features archival maps covered with foliage and drawings of kola nuts, and black writing for the title, subtitle and author name.

OUT IN DECEMBER 🗓️

Ayesha Harruna Attah's 'Bitter Sweet' is a beautifully written history of the uniquely West African Kola nut with a truly global story.

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John McHugo smiling and looking into the camera, next to a mockup of his book ‘Parallel Roads to Ruin’. The cover of the book features a silhouetted image of an Israeli soldier sat in gap within a wall with an Islamic design. There is blue and orange writing for the author name, title and subtitle.

OUT IN DECEMBER 🗓️

'Parallel Roads to Ruin' by John McHugo examines the entwined destinies of Zionists and Islamists and the political outcome of their deadly embrace.

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Roger Boyes wearing a pale blue shirt looking into the camera with his arms crossed, next to a mockup of his book, ‘The Watchers.’ The cover of the book features photos of people with pale blue boxes surrounding them, as if walking across a surveillance screen. There is white writing for the title, subtitle and author name.

OUT IN NOVEMBER 🗓️

'The Watchers' is a chilling global investigation into how modern surveillance states are built and why they endure— from Roger Boyes, a journalist once spied upon in Cold War Europe.

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Our Autumn/Winter 2026 catalogue is here 🎉 📚

Discover original and impactful new titles ranging from a chilling investigation into modern surveillance states to a history of the kola nut, and more.

Browse the full list ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvkkycsw

See the thread below for some highlights ⬇️

Against a lilac background, 5 book mockups overlapping each other. The middle book cover is a cream colour and features a small shoe and has the text 'Planet Patriarchy: Global Tales of Feminism and Opression' and author names 'Beatrix Campbell and Rahila Gupta are visible at the bottom. The book cover on the far right has the title 'Proving Ground' and shows a woman working with an electrical system. The book cover on the far left is a teal colour and features a woman standing in the middle.

This International Women's Day, we celebrate the Hurst books that champion the voices and lived experiences of women across the world, and the brilliant women who wrote them.

Browse our full list ➡️ hurstpublishers.com

@abuaardvark.bsky.social 's America's Middle East cited in this important Sunday Read from the @theguardian.com about analysis of the Iran war. Read a book sample and purchase here: tinyurl.com/y5mmr9u5

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Necessary reading 👇🏼
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There are plenty of other brilliant books on the list, including Darwin’s Savages by my fellow @hurstpublishers.bsky.social author Matthew Carr, The Wager by @davidgrann.bsky.social, False Calm by Maria Sonia Cristoff & Patagonia: A Cultural History by @traveloguer.bsky.social.

Three copies of First Overland by Tim Slessor. The cover features images of old Land Rovers appearing to drive across sand, and a blue background with an orange circle in which the title and subtitle are written. The author name appears at the bottom alongside a notice that there is a 'Foreword by Sir David Attenborough'.

⛰️🚗Decades before Race Across the World, six friends made the journey from London to Singapore and back in two Land Rovers.

First Overland, the adventure writing bestseller is republished with Sir David Attenborough's foreword, ‘an epic and a classic’.

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Five book covers on titles related to Iran, including 'The Shah's Party,' 'Triumph and Despair,' 'A New Axis of Upheaval,' and 'Russia and Iran.'

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

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Book cover of 'Arduous Path' showing a typographic design on a bright red background.

📚The latest from Azmi Bishara: ‘Arduous Paths: On the Theory and Practice of Democratic Transition’ is out now.

‘Compelling, cosmopolitan and timely.’ @professorjkeane.bsky.social

Order your copy at 40% discount w/code ARDUOUS40 ➡️ tinyurl.com/496ms5mz

Get 20% off 'The Arab Bureau' w/code GEARON20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/5a88pf9a

Israel and the US strike Iran. It is a tragedy of Tehran's own making Iran's strategy rested on the critical assumption that the US administration preferred a deal to a war. That proved fatal on Saturday.

Fantastic analysis by @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social!

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A copy of Small Earthquakes

Delighted to hear #SmallEarthquakes has been shortlisted for Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards 2026 🎉

Congratulations to fellow finalists @monisharajesh.bsky.social, @ashbhardwaj.bsky.social and @carolynboyd.bsky.social 🥂

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💭 Iran at War: The Russian Angle

A major war against #Iran raises urgent questions about Russia’s role in the Middle East.

@hannanotte.bsky.social and @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
assess the broader implications.

Register:
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A copy of The Cancelled Prime Minister held up in the courtyard at Somerset House. The cover features a black and white photo of Ramsay Macdonald with yellow and white writing for the title, subtitle and author name.

Congratulations @walterreid.bsky.social, The Cancelled Prime Minister is out today!

‘Reid is a lively and likeable biographer … interested in MacDonald the man: his diaries, letters and poems.’ — @telegraph.co.uk

20% off w/code REID20 tinyurl.com/4k997u3b

Pick up your copy of the Decca Mitford biography, a finalist for both the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award, at 25% discount w/promo code TROUBLEMAKER25

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Book cover of 'Imperial Footprints' featuring a historic black and white photo of a South Asian boy and girl in British school uniforms with a background of passport stamps.

🎉🇮🇳🇬🇧Now published: ‘Imperial Footprints: A History of South Asian Child Migrants in Britain’ by Sumita Mukherjee.

‘Evocative and original. . . An important book in understanding the long story of South Asians in Britain.’ @kavpuri

Available at 20% discount w/code FOOTPRINTS20 👉 tinyurl.com/mryska3n

War in the Smartphone Age | Hurst Publishers An essential guide to understanding war and information on today’s data-saturated battlefields—from Ukraine to Gaza and beyond.

‘War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity & the Crises at Our Fingertips’ by @warmatters.bsky.social is an essential guide to understanding war & information on today’s battlefields—from Ukraine & beyond. Hear the author at the Oxford Litfest: tinyurl.com/2u26crkj

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Sudden Departures | Hurst Publishers Almost a million Russians went into exile after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

‘Sudden Departures: Russian Exiles Between Putin and the West’ by @mzavadskaya.bsky.social, Andrei Semenov & Regina Smyth considers the Russians who went into exile after the invasion of Ukraine, nearly 1 million of them.

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From Sovereigns to Servants | Hurst Publishers How did Putin co-opt Russia’s political and economic elites, ensuring no more than fitful resistance to the regime’s war on Ukraine?

‘From Sovereigns to Servants: How the War Against Ukraine Reshaped Russia’s Elite’ by Alexandra Prokopenko examines loyalty and survival at the top of Putin’s system. How and why Russian elites adapted to the war? Forthcoming in August.

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Belarus in Crisis | Hurst Publishers A captivating introduction to a land in turmoil, revealing how and why Belarus fell apart—and where it must go from here.

How has Russia’s war with Ukraine affected Belarusians’ views of their dictatorship and the cause of democracy in their country? In ‘Belarus In Crisis’, Paul Hansbury explores how and why Belarus fell apart--and where it must go from here.

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