🇭🇺 As Hungarians go to the polls next month, might Orbán & Fidesz finally be in trouble? Read the inside story of Hungary's descent into autocracy, as told by his former parliamentary ally turned political opponent, Zsuzsanna Szelényi. Now in pb, buy 20% off w/code TAINTED20 ▶️ tinyurl.com/2t7pdfpx

For context on Lebanon, pick up Andrew Arsan's book: 'Lebanon: A Country in Fragments.' 'An acute portrayal of Lebanon’s unsentimental resilience and exhausting challenges.' @thetls.bsky.social www.hurstpublishers.com/book/lebanon...

Purchase Aurélie Daher's book 'Hezbollah' here: tinyurl.com/5yut9few Get 25% off with promo code: HEZBOLLAH25

Read a sample of 'America's Middle East' and purchase here: tinyurl.com/2h84vvvw

📚 💵 📉 Read an excerpt of 'The Doom Loop' by Eswar S. Prasad & available to purchase 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnfpjf 📺 Watch Prasad's book video here: tinyurl.com/mpaezcn8

Pick up your copy of 'Shine Your Eye' by Adéwálé Májà-Pearce & get 20% off w/code SHINE20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/44bc89j3

As Kim Jong Un secures a huge 'victory' in the North Korean elections, get a fresh look at the decisions, foreign interventions and accidents of fate which have preserved the country’s dictatorship. Get 20% off 'Pyongyang on the Brink' by Fyodor Tertitskiy w/code PYONGYANG20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/45rddnd6

Very pleased to say that my book **War in the Smartphone Age** has made it onto the US National Security Space Institute recommended reading list. cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/PDTqO...

🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un wins nearly 100% of the vote!! Learn about 'Pyongyang on the Brink' by Fyodor Tertitskiy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/p36b3c33 Use promo code PYONGYANG20 to receive a 20% discount. tinyurl.com/3bj4scrw

🇷🇺 🇮🇷 📚 Pre-order Nicole Grajewski's 'Russia and Iran' here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5a8d6pf9

🐟 Read a sample and pick up your copy here 👇 tinyurl.com/2berhpyc

As French voters go to the polls this weekend for local elections, how will successes of the far right impact Europe? Read 'Far-Right France' by @vjmalletft.bsky.social 'Crisply written, meticulously researched.' @observeruk.bsky.social 25% off w/code FRANCE25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3bkxkurr

📚 💵 📉 Read an excerpt of 'The Doom Loop' by Eswar S. Prasad & available to purchase 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnfpjf 📺 Watch the video here: tinyurl.com/mpaezcn8

Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War by Tim Sweijs & @jmichael424.bsky.social is out now in paperback 📚 ‘A remarkable achievement.’ — European Review of International Studies www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou1... Get 25% off w/code BEYOND25➡️ tinyurl.com/bdcn8xbb

Drops today: in this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast, Nicholas Gordon talks to to Olivier Hein about his recent book “Borneo: The History of an Enigma” @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Voices in Stone by Paul Brummell is out now!👏 ‘From that old geezer on a prancing horse to that over-endowed lady, Brummell will have you examining statues with delight. Glorious.’ Prue Leith ‘Absorbing, funny, enlightening’ @mennarawlings.bsky.social 20%off w/code VOICES20➡️ tinyurl.com/79e6hczc

asianreviewofbooks.com/the-shahs-pa... 'Fast-paced and readable.' Published today, by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Delighted to see my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" in the new @hurstpublishers.bsky.social catalogue amongst all these wonderful books

We’re at the London Book Fair! Come and say hello and pick up a copy of our new Autumn/Winter 2026 catalogue 🎉 www.hurstpublishers.com/catalogues/s... 📍Stand 6E70, part of the IPG stand in the Grand Hall

🇮🇷 Available now: ‘The Shah’s Party’ by Robert Templer. Learn about the event that precipitated the downfall of Reza Pahlavi’s father. ‘Fast-paced & readable.’ @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social Advance copies at 20% off w/code SHAH20 & check out our Iran Reading List here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2p9r57br

Happy International Bagpipe Day! 'The Bagpipes' by Richard McLauchlan is a diverse history of the pipes—from inspiring terror on battlefields to enriching cultures worldwide. ‘Richly entertaining and perceptive' @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Get 25% off w/ code BAGPIPES25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/73ckanj7

Purchase your copy of 'The Shah's Party' at 20% discount with code SHAH20 and see our full reading list on Iran here ▶️ www.hurstpublishers.com/category/rea...

I have loved pretty much everything Kaplan has written on the Balkans. Excited to read this eventually

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.

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 ⬇️

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 www.theguardian.com/news/series/...

Necessary reading 👇🏼 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @abuaardvark.bsky.social

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.

⛰️🚗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’. 20% off w/code FIRST20➡️ tinyurl.com/y7sr6kue

🇮🇷 Find a reading list on Iran—its history, politics and people—and America's entanglements in the Middle East here 👇 tinyurl.com/4hhw3dce

📚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

Fantastic analysis by @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social! thebulletin.org/2026/02/isra...

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 🥂 event.inspireglobal.travel/finalists-20...

💭 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: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4p8ez54f

🎉🇮🇳🇬🇧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

The war Trump boasted he would ‘end within one day’ enters its fourth anniversary this week. Sadly, as Russian missiles pound Ukraine & Putin continues the nuclear sabre-rattling, a workable peace is not in clear sight. Here’s a reading list of books to provide some context: tinyurl.com/msufwsvr

'Cabo Verde and the Creole South Atlantic' by Malyn Newitt is out now 🌟 The first general history of the archipelago available in English, set within a broader regional, oceanic and global tapestry. '[A] lavishly detailed history' Barry Hatton Get 20% off w/code NEWITT20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4mypwpzx

Good news! 25% off my book Extreme Britain: Gender Masculinity and Radicalisation 📘 till midnight tonight! Pre-order the paperback now via Waterstones using code FEB26: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... Based on interviews with activists in UK far right and Islamist movements.

As concern about an imminent American attack on Iran grows, we wonder how did we get here? See our reading list in the thread below to contextualise the current unrest.

'Enemy of the State' by Oliver Price is out now! Discover how state surveillance of left-wing individuals & groups was normalised in Cold War Britain, under the guise of upholding democracy. 'A book of striking relevance for our times.' Helen Fry Get 20% off w/code ENEMY20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/2szyc4xd

@daisydunn.bsky.social considers the concept of ‘book podcasts’ in the latest issue of the @thespectator1828.bsky.social, including a review of the new @lrb.co.uk pod discussing ‘Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford’ by @cktroublemaker.bsky.social . spectator.com/article/the-...

Friends in the UK&Ireland: Preorder our forthcoming edited book on the collapse of #Lebanon from @waterstones.bsky.social use code FEB26 till Friday 23:59 to get 25% off @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/lebanon...

In the UK, order your copy of the 'Doom Loop' at 20% off with promo code DOOM20 tinyurl.com/25bm7wx8

As President Trump reiterates his attack on the Chagos deal, time to learn more about this latest geopolitical hotspot in Olivier Hein’s 'Star and Key' and the forthcoming 'The British Indian Ocean Territory' by Samuel Bashfield. ➡️ hurstpublishers.com?s=chagos

Yes, I know my upcoming book "The Baltic States in the Second World War" has been delayed several times. (Apologies). But.... Waterstones is having a pre-order sale this week. Use the order code FEB26 at checkout for 25% off. www.waterstones.com/book/the-bal... 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹

Are you interested in how revenge and honour shaped British and French colonial warfare? Then check out my new book, Empire with a Vengeance, published with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Available now for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... @waterstones.bsky.social