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Jonathan Freedland

A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information ? and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth? ? Yuval Noah Harari…

James Holland

Peter Aperlo

Jonathan Miles

Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week' '[A] fabulous romp of a book'***** Mail on Sunday A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes…

Malcolm X, Alex Haley

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified in the white press as a teacher of race…

Marcus Aurelius

A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor…

Serhii Plokhy

Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion…

Harald Jähner

David Grann

David Graeber

Yuval Noah Harari

A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One…

Peter Frankopan

*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work'…

Martyn Rady

'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator 'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph…

Timothy W. Ryback

Peter Englund

Simon Kuper

From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naďf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little. Simon Kuper has…

Amitav Ghosh

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of…

Angela Saini

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023

David van Reybrouck

Alex Christofi

Chris Patten

Peter H. Wilson

Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands…

Clare Mulley