10 June 2019
The Sunday Times bestselling Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back by journalist Oliver Bullough has been shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage excellence in writing and thinking about politics. Judges look for books that make ‘Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.’
Moneyland is the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. In Bullough’s jaw-dropping and entertaining book, we learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability. We discover the true cost of being open for business no matter how corrupt and dangerous the customer. Meet the kleptocrats. Meet their awful children. And we find out how heroic activists around the world are fighting back.
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