{"title":"Books by Oliver Bullough","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781788165884","title":"Butler to the World","description":"A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY MAIL BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY MIRROR BEST NON-FICTION BOOKAN IRISH TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARHow did Britain become the servant of the world's most powerful and corrupt men? From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to the offshore tax havens, meet Butler Britain...In his Sunday Times-bestselling expose, Oliver Bullough reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. Though the UK prides itself on values of fair play and the rule of law, few countries do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts. 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Oliver Bullough's extraordinary debut tells their story for the first time. Travelling from remote village to refugee camp, rocky mountain gorge to forgotten massacre site, he discovers exiles, fighters, lost sects, defiant survivors - and an unbreakable spirit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'With this impassioned volume Bullough has struck a blow for the glory of the Caucasus and helped to give voice to the voiceless' \u003cbr\u003e  Justin Marozzi, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Gripping stories that tell of the terrible things that happen to people caught up in constant warfare ... Now their stories are sung by a champion and will resound beyond their boundaries' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A haunting portrait of a people blown to the winds by a forgotten storm' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Wonderful, moving' \u003cbr\u003e  Norman Stone \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Brilliant ... Bullough draws you irresistibly into his narrative, fusing reportage, history and travelogue in colourful, absorbing prose ... The book is a pleasure'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSpectator \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Grand, furious' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Let its fame be great' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eOliver Bullough \u003c\/b\u003e(b. 1977) studied modern history at Oxford University and moved to Russia in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek and Moscow over the next seven years, working as a journalist first for local magazines and newspapers, and then for Reuters news agency. He reported from all over Russia and the former Soviet Union, but liked nothing more than to work among the peoples and mountains of the North Caucasus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225048428917,"sku":"9780141037745","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141037745_44f3ee5b-e6a8-4de2-8a65-5e04a4689dc6.jpg?v=1786011778"},{"product_id":"9781781257937","title":"Moneyland","description":"\u003cp\u003eA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY MAIL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'You cannot understand power, wealth and poverty without knowing about Moneyland.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Kuper, New StatesmanDemocracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why? 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South America's drug cartels would be stuffed without it, as would Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, American tax evaders and a whole bestiary of human (and animal) traffickers the world over. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet, estimates of the dirty portion of world GDP have held steady at 2%-5% for decades. All efforts at legislation, diplomacy, prosecution and compliance have been a complete flop. It's not a lack of will to stamp it out. It's a lack of insight. So join bestselling investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a perspective-altering adventure through the flipside of the global economy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the criminal world, cash is still king (in fact, crime might now be the main thing cash is good for, and even why it still exists). Barter is pretty good too: vast, continent-wide exchanges of everything from luxury handbags to baby eels support a triangular drug trade linking Europe to the Far East. 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