Varoufakis will stir controversy once again with his latest book, a mix of non-fiction and fiction imagining the world in 2025, when things have gone his way: the democratisation of wealth, ... 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
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
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.
The Chagos Archipelago was appropriated from Mauritius by Britain in the 1960s and its inhabitants deported (with one suitcase each) to Mauritius and the UK in 1967-1973 to make way for the ... read more
The first English translation of this often overlooked French intellectual's last lecture, in which Aron emphasises the importance of liberal democracy during the tumultuous years of the Col... read more
A collection of diary entries, essays and reflections from the American poet and scholar. Wang is one of the foremost writers on race, prisons and political surveillance. These writings - br... read more
Save the salmon and save the planet; it works the other way round too. Kurlansky is thorough, thoughtful and fascinating.
NB Publication of this book has been delayed. Publishing schedule... read more
A useful book from CUP, as thorough as you would expect. Paris and London in the 1720s, Latin America a century later, New York in the 1920s, Shanghai in the 2000s amongst others.
What should we believe in a world of fake news? How do we keep our footing in a torrent of 'alternative facts'? From the excellent and experienced former Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News (19... read more
The 'special relationship' was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macm... read more
...and why it's good for the planet, the economy and our lives. We may even have time to read it. Prof Dorling is a specialist in demography at Oxford and knows his onions.
A slim volume on life and thought of one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. It ranges over her dramatic life, her love affair with Martin Heidegger, exile, Eich... read more
The great novelist-in-exile examines the troubled relationship between the Russian state and its citizens, using the past to cast light on the present.
These ghastly-funny-surreal collages roast our politcians for their cynicism and incompetence. They are thoroughly modern yet travel a straight line to the satirical extremities of Hogarth, ... read more
The open-source investigative journalism and fact-checking network that works with an independent international collective of researchers, who recently reported on the Navalny poisoning, inc... read more
... and statistics - their use and misuse is legendary, and confusing: TH is a whizz at clearing the obfuscations and shows what brilliant tools numbers can be.
His 2019 book 'Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain' was a brilliant, erudite, witty and important sequence of essays about why Brexit happened. This book is all new material.
The late CB specialized in identifying patterns (eg The Seven Basic Plots). Here he examines three sets of ‘in-group’ attitudes that he believed to be increasingly pervasive, and dangero... read more
The author of 'East West Street' examines the life of Otto von Wachter, the SS Governor of Galicia, who was indicted for mass murder in 1945 and went to ground in the Austrian Alps.
If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
How we might mitigate the effects of an unrestrained market with strong civil government to create inclusive economic growth. Henderson is a professor at Harvard and a member of both the Bri... read more
Recounts seven decades of activities, with interviews that include most of the surviving former heads of the CIA and discussions of the Agency's role in containing presidential powers. Revel... read more
The dismantling of the welfare state in the UK was well under way before the Covid assault. Bunting has been researching this for five years, speaking to nurses, doctors, palliative care tea... read more