BOOK RELEASES
Award-winning author Professor Ben Ansell ( OS 1995 ) has published Why Politics Fail : The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them ( Penguin ). In his first book for the general reader , Professor Ansell draws on examples from Ancient Greece to Brexit to illustrate how we can overcome self-interest and deliver on our collective goals .
Vanessa Kisuule ( OS 2009 ), poet , performer and Forward Prizes judge , released her non-fiction debut Neverland : The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom ( Canongate ). Vanessa examines the nuances of ‘ fandom ’ and invites us to question the dangers of idolising and villainising individuals .
Thomas Heatherwick CBE ( OS 1984 ), designer , highlights the epidemic of boring buildings in Humanise : A Maker ’ s Guide to Our World ( Penguin ).
In Lucem , the debut novel by Julian Kitsz ( OS 2018 ) with cover illustrated by Harry Carley ( OS 2018 ), is a dark historical and psychological mystery , set in 1969 against the gothic landscape of the prestigious Huxley College .
Sex , Spies and Scandal : The John Vassall Affair ( Biteback Publishing ) by Alex Grant ( OS 1992 ) is the story of John Vassall , a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962 .
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