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This is the blistering account of what it was like to work for Mark Zuckerberg, by a former employee. Funnily enough, the self-styled champion of free speech tried to ban it.

Careless People: A story of where I used to work

Sarah Wynn-Williams

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The Fire

Cecilia Sala

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The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened ...

Tash Walker

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Failed ventures in the Dakota Badlands and Indochina brought this sinister figure (and classmate of Pétain) back to France, where his rabble-rousing and foaming antisemitism gave a proto-id... read more

The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès ...

Sergio Luzzatto

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The intervention of the law in the lives of children, using the experiences of Caroline Norton, George Sand, Elizabeth Packard, Frieda Lawrence, Edna O'Brien, Alice Walker and Britney Spears... read more

Custody: The Secret History of Mothers

Lara Feigel

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As in Moneyland and Butler To The World, Bullough exposes eye-watering networks of criminal grift.

Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won ...

Oliver Bullough

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The distinguished Australian novelist Helen Garner won the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for her diaries. Here, she and two other writers who attended the trial of Erin Patterson offer their th... read more

The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial ...

Helen Garner

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The new kinds of machine-human interaction - AI companions, friends, lovers, parents, spouses - even AI resurrectionists... Disturbing, funny, challenging.

Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relatio ...

James Muldoon

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Nemtsov is one of Russia's lost hopes. By a leading journalist-in-exile.

The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern ...

Mikhail Fishman

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It is 20 years since the murder of this brave reporter of Putin's iniquities. A selection of her work, reissued.

The Essential Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaia

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Describes the global shift away from the development of the imagination, critical thinking and the pursuit of truth. In its place we have moved towards commodified and undemocratic education... read more

Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons ...

Guy Standing

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Her essays on exile and migration are among the finest out there; this is a bracingly intelligent work on nationalism, societal rupture and repair.

Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century ...

Ece Temelkuran

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An informed and skilful account of liberalism's history.

Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism ...

Adrian Wooldridge

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Drawing on forty years reporting from the environmental front-line, Pearce offers us enlightening, hopeful stories from across the planet, and suggests further action. A salve for those in d... read more

Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls

Fred Pearce

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A short, critical essay on free speech, surveillance, authoritarianism and propaganda.

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

Ai Weiwei

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Indigenous peoples and wildlife in the far north - Ellesmere Island, Alaska, Greenland, Norway... And a lot of melting ice.

Frostlines: An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic ...

Neil Shea

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The Women

Hilton Als

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Palestine is Everywhere

Skye Arundhati Thomas

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Considers the precise nature of war crimes and the world's ambivalent responses - or complicity. Robertson KC has represented, amongst many others, Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and the cur... read more

Eyeless in Gaza: Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes

Geoffrey Robertson

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With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was re... read more

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Maria Alyokhina

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From neolithic farming to modern computing: the role of women as creators of societal wealth - and how this benefits us all.

Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power ...

Victoria Bateman

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Undoing our preconceptions about the world's dominant economic system, Beckert proposes a novel argument for how capitalism is as much a product of merchant societies in the Far East and Glo... read more

Capitalism: A Global History

Sven Beckert

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A memoir by the inventor of the internet - a man who gave it away to all of us for free and will no doubt be canonised one day, if we survive as a species.

This is For Everyone

Tim Berners-Lee

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Informed by his years with Meta.

How to Save the Internet

Nick Clegg

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As the old world dies and the new world struggles to be born, da Empoli assembles a rogues' gallery of the tyrants, tech bros and billionaires constructing our present dystopia. Acerbic yet ... read more

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billi ...

Giuliano da Empoli

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The author is of course the distinguished Law Lord who presided over the Supreme Court's carefully-argued judgement that Johnson's prorogation of Parliament in 2016 was an impossibility unde... read more

With the Law on Our Side: How the Law Works For Everyone and How We Ca ...

Brenda Hale

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A tale of precarious monopolies and feuding factions, redolent of warring Renaissance merchant families. We know them from their brand logos and app icons; we read the salient points of thei... read more

iWar: Fortnite, Musk, Spotify, and the Siege of Apple ...

Tim Higgins

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From Brexit in the west to territorial war in the east, this book makes sense of the political, economic and social tumult of contemporary Europe. Rich in both archival and anecdotal detail.

Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World ...

David Marsh

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Doing the hokey-cokey with Europe - and who danced with whom - by the astute political observer.

Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 194 ...

Tom McTague

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Looks at the balance between the gnomic workings of the ghost in the machine in economics, and the whims and emotions of human agents.

The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies Then and Now ...

Richard H. Thaler

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This love letter to the commonality of knowledge from the founder of Wikipedia ponders what truth and trust mean in a 'post-truth' age.

The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today’s Most Essential Super ...

Jimmy Wales

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Both the invention of writing and the printing press threw the human race out of whack. Alderman explores our current, third 'Information Crisis': the internet. She looks at how we are bein... read more

Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

Naomi Alderman

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How Christianity has faded from the centre-stage of our culture, and how this loss undermines our democratic and civic values - equality, suffrage, social justice. A valiant argument for how... read more

The Eclipse of Christianity: and why it matters

Rupert Shortt

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A look at the fast-approaching moment when melting ice will open up new passages - and new hostilities - in the far North.

Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic

Mia Bennett

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The unveiling of a new Great Game by a geo-strategic policy maker - the players also include China and Russia.

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump ...

Elizabeth Buchanan

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The dark age of the soul: a close look at the terrifying erosion of the spirit by techno-capitalism and its machinations, and a reminder of what makes us human.

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paul Kingsnorth

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