An ambitious book that traces the collapse of empires and their ramifications in contemporary Eurasian geopolitics - in particular Iran, China, Turkey and Russia.
A collection of essays by the late traveller and acute observer of nature: "The central project of my adult life as a writer is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others t... read more
An original and entertaining book on the smoke and mirrors of the modern consumer's world - case studies that take apart our ideas of the real and the fake, of appearance and deception.
Subtitled 'a true story of Russian money-laundering, state-sponsored murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath': BB's exposé of the Magnitsky affair and its subsequent international rami... read more
A human rights lawyer charts both the history of how the powerful have tried to get inside our heads and also provides a framework to understand how our agency is undermined nowadays.
The editor of the New Statesman takes a handful of news stories from the last two decades, and reflects on what they mean for England as a nation. A compassionate and readable analysis of h... read more
Argues that the West's strategy with China has failed: trade and contact with the West have left it more aggressive, repressive and threatening than ever.
After looking at the bleak trajectory of Erdogan's regime, DB argues that Turkey's democratic instincts and economic ties to Europe will win in the end.
Founded by mavericks in 1922, it evolved through the war, the invention of television and subsequent massive cultural changes. Whatever its problems, it is an extraordinary institution, and ... read more
An emergency to rival climate change: all of life on earth as we know it relies on insects, and their numbers are in free-fall. Unnerving and important reminder that global pollution and agr... read more
The Dutch historian and journalist on the first two decades of the C21st and the forces that have rocked the European project. How could the dream of unity, peace, prosperity and co-operatio... read more
The author of Capital In The Twenty First Century brings together his articles from Le Monde, covering the rise and fall of Trump, Brexit, Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the u... read more
Wry and robust memoir from the Conservative MP of - amongst other things - 'Plebgate' notoriety. Praised by voices on both sides of the political divide.
A passionate, erudite defence of the pluralism and secularism that have been India's socio-political treasure since Independence, now besieged by ethno-religious ideologies and politics. Imm... read more
He has been making documentaries in Westminster for fifty years, and filmed the last ten Prime Ministers. Here he shares insights and some of the confidences given to him by his subjects whe... read more
A detailed, careful attempt to understand the changes in the United States over the last decade that sees Trump's election not so much as the cause of fracture but rather as the bitter fruit... read more
A travelogue through the so-called 'red wall' seats of Northern England. Brexit and Corbyn are here of course, but Payne's dogged reportage reveals a sense that something more fundamental ha... read more
Hair-raising tour of the corridors and back doors of the globalised digital world that looks at espionage and crime, and exposes our startling vulnerabilities.
Amongst the plethora of recent books on the threats facing liberal democracy, this one stands out for the author's talent for making complex subjects comprehensible. He sees the danger comin... read more
Draws on his own family's experience of emigrating from India to Britain and America to show how the West is being destroyed not by immigrants but by its fear of immigrants.