MELVILLE HOUSE TO CRASH BOOK BY JOHN DEAN OF WATERGATE FAME ON THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS
Watergate legend John Dean and Brooklyn indie publisher Melville House today announce their partnership on the imminent publication of AUTHORITARIAN NIGHTMARE: TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS. The book will be co-written… Read more »
Weird Sub-Federal-Reserve Report swims across our field of vision, unsettles, amuses
We here at Melville House like to feel that our intellectual diet is broad and diverse; we consider ourselves genteel scholars, Renaissance persons to whom no form of discourse about… Read more »
Poets respond to coronavirus crisis with new NHS anthology
The past few weeks have seen a renewed appreciation in the UK for the National Health Service, as it battles the staggering pressure created by the number of people requiring… Read more »
Racist colouring book distributed publicly by far right German political party AfD
Alternative for Germany (AfD) was only formed in 2013, but it has become the third largest political party in Germany. Eurosceptic and right-wing populist, it is supporting increasingly far-right views and is now, first and… Read more »
“C” is for “Censorship”; CIA deploys iron-fisted approval process: sycophants only, please!
The pending publication of moustachioed former national security adviser John Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened has run into snags during the process of being vetted by the Central… Read more »
Greta Thunberg named TIME person of the year; jointly scoops Waterstones book of the year
You might have heard there’s an election on today in the UK*. Brenda from Bristol: NOT ANOTHER ONE! Yes, Brenda, another one. Because that’s just how we roll over here… Read more »
The votes are in: Melville House’s books are here to help explain the UK’s political mess
The UK has taken to the polls in the third general election in five years—the first December election for almost a century. At the moment of writing, latest opinion poll… Read more »
This week in fraud: fake children’s books used to boost campaign finances
We are living in something of a golden age of fraud. It seems in the past four years, we’ve become acquainted with every permutation of misdeed involving a country in… Read more »
Anonymous anti-Trump author censured: Hachette holds hard line
Last week we posted our admittedly somewhat jaded reactions to the news that the anonymous author of the much-discussed anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times has written a book.… Read more »
How to catch a spider: Lady Hale, subject of a new children’s book, delivers verdict on liar Boris Johnson
Hello American friends! Have you been keeping up with the epic political fiasco continuing to unfold in the UK? No? Let me give you a quick recap! This July, Theresa May… Read more »