It’s been 5 years since the Taliban seized back control in Afghanistan & subjugated the female population. D Kilcullen’s & G Mills’ ‘The Ledger’ recounts the West’s catastrophic withdrawal. Foreword by @rory-stewart.bsky.social. Taliban reading list ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdzn5axz 40% off through Sunday.

📚 All in-stock titles 40% off until midnight Sunday! www.hurstpublishers.com

🎶 The World Pipe Band Championship is kicking off in Glasgow (watch on the BBC)! With over 200 bands representing 15 countries, the event demonstrates the international nature of the bagpipes as described in Richard McLauchlan’s history of the instrument. 40% off this week tinyurl.com/y3mb2tfs

On this Day in 1937, the lengthy Battle of Shanghai began, finally ending on November 26th with Japan capturing the city after heavy destruction. To learn more about Japanese military brutality in WWII, see ‘Punishment’ by Danny Orbach, releasing later this month. Pre-order ➡️ tinyurl.com/3cf4hcs7

Pick up your copy of @abuaardvark.bsky.social's 'American Middle East' at 40% off this week in our Summer Sale. tinyurl.com/5jb73m29

America's Middle East | Hurst Publishers

From the Gulf War to Gaza, a compelling critique of how and why Washington ensnared itself so destructively in the Middle East.

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Abu Aardvark@abuaardvark.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“This is perhaps the single most important work focusing on US Middle East policy in recent years. It is quite readable and suitable both for area specialists and those without extensive knowledge of the region.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇺🇦 Who holds the cards now? As Ukraine Independence Day approaches on August 24th, there are rumours a US delegation is headed to Kyiv to renew peace talks. Learn more about the history of the conflict with our Ukraine reading list, now all titles 40% off in our summer sale. ➡️ tinyurl.com/3huby346

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d ago

Ukraine has agreed to stop targeting non-Russian vessels in the Black Sea after a July 31 call between the US vice-president and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ft.trib.al/WKxKwxr

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

Non-fiction indie press Hurst Publishers awarded Mo Siewcharran grant

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A Syrian court has sentenced Bashar Assad and his brother to death in absentia. Learn more about the brutal Assad regime and its overthrow via our Syrian reading list. tinyurl.com/bddxwu3m @rallaf.bsky.social @jeromed.bsky.social

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d ago

BREAKING: Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his brother have been sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

To learn about more failed terrorist plots, pick up 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed' by @lizziedearden.bsky.social 40% off this week ins our summer sale: www.hurstpublishers.com/book/plotters/

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Longlisted for the Neave Book Prize An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of—because the perpetrators were caught in time.

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Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today is the 20th anniversary of the most significant terror plot ever foiled in the UK The cell behind it didn't achieve their aim of taking down 7 transatlantic planes in an attack deadlier than 9/11, but they did change air travel for the next two decades inews.co.uk/news/crime/f...

📚 Summer Sale Week! All available titles 40% off on the Hurst website! Discount applied automatically at the checkout Ends 23:59 on 16th August. Browse our full list 👉 hurstpublishers.com

🇬🇱 As a Trump-linked oil firm preparing to drill in remote regions of Greenland, we are once again asking: 'So You Want to Own Greenland?' Read @BuchananLiz's book for answers, releasing later this month in an updated, paperback edition. tinyurl.com/5n8rm6wz www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

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All in-stock titles 40% off, applied at checkout. Sale ends August 16th. www.hurstpublishers.com

Get 40% off #SmallEarthquakes during the @hurstpublishers.bsky.social summer sale 👇🏽 www.hurstpublishers.com/book/small-e...

Our Summer Sale 2026 is live 🎉 Get 40% off all available titles on the Hurst website! Discount applied automatically at the checkout Ends 23:59 on 16th August Browse our full list ➡️ hurstpublishers.com

Pick up your copy of Judge Meron’s inspirational story, ‘A Thousand Miracles,’ ➡️ tinyurl.com/4dx6326t

EJIL: Talk!@ejiltalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Survival to Justice: A Conversation with Judge Theodor Meron | by Kate Hamilton

📰✍️'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 @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ed Pulford · Beyond the 38th Parallel: The Cult of Kim

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🐟Peta suggests the upcoming ‘Aberaeron Mackerel Fiesta’ should consider celebrating cabbage instead. 🤔 What about those silver darlings, herring? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peta wants Aberaeron Mackerel Fiesta to celebrate cabbage instead

Aberaeron holds an annual "light-hearted funeral" dedicated to the fast-swimming fish.

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To sample 'A History of South Africa' by Thula Simpson, read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yvz868ej

Sample of "History of South Africa" by Thula Simpson

Peek inside this book and discover another great read.

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The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · last wk.

History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present, by Thula Simpson @hurstpublishers.bsky.social; Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid, by Evan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social;

🇬🇱👀 'So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump' by Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan is releasing later this month in an updated, paperback edition. Read a sample & link to buy at the end here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8rm6wz

Sample of "So You Want to Own Greenland?" by Elizabeth Buchanan

Peek inside this book and discover another great read.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump posts meme suggesting he wants to run for an illegal third term, then follows that up with posts suggesting he wants to annex Greenland and Venezuela

👀Need a refresher in African geography, history or culture? Look no further than our award-winning list! 🌍 tinyurl.com/4mzm87mr www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Africa map: US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries

A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.

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🇺🇦 Advance stock of ‘To Die With Such Men’ pb edition by @shannonmonaghan.bsky.social now available! ‘Explores in bloody detail… what it’s really like to volunteer on Ukraine’s front line.’ @thetimes.com 20% discount w/code MONAGHAN20 tinyurl.com/bp848r22 Read an extract 👉 tinyurl.com/5csnd7ut

We are delighted to be working with Creative Access to recruit for our new Publicity & Marketing Trainee! If you want to join our team, we’d love to hear from you: opportunities.creativeaccess.org.uk/job/publicit...

Spain is deploying military to the N African enclave of Ceuta after thousands of migrants breached the border. Why do border security policies fail? Read Dr. Matilde Rosina’s interview in the LSE Review of Books about her book, ‘The Migration Question’, coauthored w/ Professor Leila Simona Talani. 👇

LSE Review of Books@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW INTERVIEW: Matilde Rosina on migration myths & why border security policies fail Matilde @lse-ei.bsky.social speaks about The Migration Question: Politics, Economics & the Failure of Border Security, co-authored with Leila Simona Talani @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Can’t believe it’s a year since #SmallEarthquakes was published 🎉 A huge thanks to everyone who has bought, supported, read and reviewed it, as well the brilliant @hurstpublishers.bsky.social 🙏🏽 www.hurstpublishers.com/book/small-e...

All eyes on Gaza to see if the historic Hamas disarmament holds and how Israel responds. Let us remember 'the tragedy of the Palestinians, caught between Hamas’s fanaticism and Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing' (The Guardian).

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Read a free extract from ‘A Historian in Gaza’ ➡️ tinyurl.com/tm4vhnsj

Sample & purchase @newrepublic.com's ‘Book of the Week’: @abuaardvark.bsky.social 's‘ America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region’ here 👉 tinyurl.com/4w22j22s ‘Persuasively argues that the U.S. efforts to shape the Middle East have failed.’

🏙️ Lucky enough to be in Edinburgh this August? Tix still available for the book festival event ‘dirty money’ & cities on the 24th. Hear our author of 'Uneasy Streets' @urbanmorph.bsky.social in conversation w/bestselling author @oliverbullough.bsky.social. Tickets available 👉 tinyurl.com/4am82hxp

Oliver Bullough & Caroline Knowles: Dirty Money | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Thanks to the @deutschewelle.dw.com team for the long interview on China's reusable rocket achievement, its wider lunar and space infrastructure ambitions, and what other major powers are doing in space. Conveniently it's stuff I go into more depth in Original Sin with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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Read ‘From Survival to Justice: A Conversation with Judge Theodor Meron’ by Kate Hamilton of the UK FCDO in the latest blog from the 'European Jrnl of International Law' here: tinyurl.com/y3m7r3jb Pick up your copy of Judge Meron’s inspirational story, ‘A Thousand Miracles,’ ➡️ tinyurl.com/4dx6326t

📢 Still time to book: ‘The Far Right Has Risen’ at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Aug 22nd. Featuring @vjmalletft.bsky.social (author of ‘Far-Right France’), @nikeshshukla.bsky.social, @trillingual.bsky.social w/@talatyaqoob.bsky.social chairing. Tickets here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xnem774