This eye-watering analysis by a US academic specialising in modern Russia has a broader reach - from Chinese bandits and C18th English tea smugglers to the role of crime in the creation of n... read more
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.
Wry, chatty, glitzy memoir by the former editor of Vanity Fair, staff writer for Time and Life, and co-creator of Spy. His stable of writers included Christopher Hitchens, Fran Lebowitz and ... read more
Eloquently addresses the brave lifeboat crews and volunteers who help the refugees in the small boats crisis.
This short book began ‘with a feeling of deep disquiet’ following a perio... read more
The Bibby Resolution started llife as an offshore Swedish oil rig. It has then been sold, renamed and re-purposed several times - as a
barracks (Falkands), prison (US), oil worker quarters... read more
Lewis (of Liar's Poker fame and many others) asked several writers for pieces on different aspects of government, cogs great and small. Contributors include John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks... read more
Inspired reprint of the 1957 book by a Quaker scientist who was responding to the horrors of the atomic bomb.Supremely intelligent, clear - and optimistic.
A brilliant look at the relationship between neo-liberal freedoms and authoritarian, illiberal views. The author has previously written about the decoupling of markets from democracy in Crac... read more
A provocative, personal series of essays looking at the encroachment of technology - AI, Twitter, Google et al - on our autonomy, independence and privacy. But it's SO convenient...
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.
A tremendous, intelligent history of an idea which is a lot more nuanced and interesting than political chatter might often suggest. Covers from around 1700, when modern ideas of liberty and... read more
Macfarlane's powerful new book is a beautiful torrent of vivid language and research - and also his most political work so far. As we'd expect from this remarkable writer, he ranges from the... read more
A collection of essays about our most basic need - water - with contributions by Rebecca Solnit, Ocean Vuong, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lucy Jones, Vandana Shiva, Elif Shafak and others.
No doubt there will be humour at the expense of the Tory MPs who fell by the wayside for several mortal sins (mostly greed but also the ill-advised coveting of thy neighbour's tractor in the... read more
The Swedish ecologist, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, proves how Israel's attack on Gaza is not just a humanitarian but an environmental crisis. H... read more
Few people have better earned the right to be listened to than Roth, having witnessed the fallout of practically every horror of the last thirty years: Rwanda, Myanmar, Kuwait, Ukraine... As... read more