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A valuable alternative to Niall Ferguson's, whose immense vol 1 still waits for vol 2. Translated from the French.

Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik ...

Jeremie Gallon

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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

Homo Criminalis: How Crime Organises the World

Mark Galeotti

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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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An account of the investigation by the German newspaper Handelsblatt following an approach by an ex-employee of Tesla: makes for startling reading.

The Tesla Files: A whistleblower, a Leak, a Fight for Truth: The Insid ...

S?nke Iwersen

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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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We missed this brilliant exposition from our Christmas 2024 catalogue. (It's still available in hardback too.)

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the race that is changing the world ...

Parmy Olson

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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

When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last ...

Graydon Carter

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Argues that the greatest threat to democracy is interlinked networks - primarily, state-controlled companies - rather than individuals.

Autocracy, Inc

Anne Applebaum

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A memoir by New Zealand's unforgettable 40th Prime Minister.

A Different Kind of Power

Jacinda Ardern

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A diary of the war in Ukraine by the late novelist, essayist and poet, killed by a missile in 2023.

Looking at Women, Looking at War

Victoria Amelina

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A call to arms for the return of honesty in our politics, media and business.

A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How To Get It ...

Mike Berners-Lee

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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

We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain

Horatio Clare

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The philosopher takes on cancellation and the middle ground. Cups of hemlock, ostracism and the internet...

Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars

A. C. Grayling

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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

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship ...

Ian Kumekawa

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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

Who is government? The Untold Story of Public Service ...

Michael Lewis

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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.

Is Peace Possible?

Kathleen Lonsdale

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By a barrister whose work places her at the cutting edge of environmental laws around the world.

A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future ...

Monica Feria-Tinta

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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

Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right ...

Quinn Slobodian

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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...

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Vauhini Vara

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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 appeal of simplistic answers and their concomitant narrow conformity: Zmigrod's analysis makes for compelling reading in our polarized times.

The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds ...

Leor Zmigrod

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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

What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea ...

Fara Dabhoiwala

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A collection of non-fiction from the great novelist and sardonic chronicler of climate change.

Wild Fictions

Amitav Ghosh

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Prof. Farrier is consolingly positive about our relationship with our world.

Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet ...

David Farrier

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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

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

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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.

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

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The history of the Baltic states, how they differ from one another, and their individual and collective significance to the West.

Baltic: The Future of Europe

Oliver Moody

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By the American professor of journalism and political science.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Peter Beinart

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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

Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip ...

Simon Hart

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The author is a veteran oak himself.

From Acorns to Oaks: An Urgent Agenda to Rebuild Britain ...

Michael Heseltine

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Historically informed, socially and environmentally alert, Kaplan is a great contemporary commentator on geopolitics.

Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis

Robert D Kaplan

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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

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth ...

Andreas Malm

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Already attracting immense praise, this remarkable book poses many uncomfortable questions.

The World After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra

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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

Righting Wrongs: Three Decades Leading Human Rights Watch ...

Kenneth Roth

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Famously the cleverest man in Britain, Sumption has trenchant views about these matters.

The Challenges of Democracy: And The Rule of Law

Jonathan Sumption

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