10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF TIM MARSHALL’S MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLER, PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY OUT THIS SPRING!

Elliott & Thompson are thrilled to announce that on 10th April 2025, they will publish a fully updated, 10-year anniversary edition of Tim Marshall’s runaway bestseller Prisoners of Geography: Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics.
Originally published in 2015, this new edition has been updated with over 30,000 words of new content to reflect how the global geopolitical landscape has changed. Jennie Condell, Director at Elliott & Thompson, originally acquired World Rights direct from the author in 2015. Since then, Prisoners of Geography has sold over 850,000 copies in the UK (Nielsen sales, paperback and hardback) and has been translated into 40 languages, selling over 3 million copies worldwide. The new edition will publish in paperback on 10th April, priced at £10.99.
This is the book people need to understand what’s happening in the news today, with new material including: the Russia–Ukraine war and Moscow’s alliances with authoritarian states; the conflicts in the Middle East; China’s growing military and strategic power, and its stance on Taiwan; American global power and pivot to the Pacific; Europe’s leaning towards more extreme politics, increased defence spending, and the new ‘Iron Curtain’; Japan’s remilitarisation and increasing power; great power play in Africa; and the growth of Indian economic and military strength.
Elliott & Thompson will support the release with a huge marketing and publicity drive, focussing on Tim Marshall’s fans and their enduring love for Prisoners of Geography 10 years on. Expect to see programmatic, podcast and National Rail Advertising, Instagram partnerships with non-fiction book influencers, and POS offerings.
Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography, says:
‘A decade on, there are a billion more of us on planet Earth than when Prisoners of Geography was first published. That’s a billion events, all contributing to the changes we see around us in what is now the post-post-Cold War era. This is just one of the major transformations we have seen.
I wanted to completely update Prisoners of Geography to capture many of those changes through the lens of international relations, and the idea that geography remains one of the driving forces underpinning decisions made by nation states, big business and popular movements.
There’s clearly a thirst for context among book readers. It’s an honour to contribute to this if only in a small way.’
Jennie Condell, Director at Elliott & Thompson says:
‘Tim Marshall’s achievement with Prisoners of Geography is nothing short of phenomenal: it is one of the most successful non-fiction books of the past decade, spending well over 100 weeks in the Sunday Times top ten. Readers love Tim’s clarity, wit and razor-sharp analysis, and much that he wrote of in 2015 has come to pass. Now, this gripping new edition gives all readers – those who already love the book, and those yet to discover it – everything they need to understand our world for the next ten years and beyond.’
PRAISE FOR PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY:
‘Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine.’Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard, on Prisoners of Geography
’Sharp insights into the way geography shapes the choices of world leaders.’ Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
‘Marshall is not afraid to ask tough questions and provide sharp answers.’ Newsweek
ABOUT TIM MARSHALL
Tim Marshallis a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography; Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book; the illustrated edition Prisoners of Geography (shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year); as well as Divided; Worth Dying For; and Shadowplay. Tim Marshall was the UK’s 6th bestselling trade non-fiction author in 2023 (Bookscan).
Title details:
Pub date: 10 April 2025
ISBN: 9781783968596
EPUB: 9781783961429
Price: £10.99
Format: Paperback