The author of Europe's Tragedy, the definitive book on the Thirty Years War, has written a powerful narrative of five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change in G... read more
This is very funny and very sharp - bold economic ideas dished up with anchovies on toast, etc. By the author of the best-selling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Distils the ideas of half a dozen C20th conservative (small 'c') intellectuals. The imperfection of the Westminster parliamentary model, and democratic systems at large, was one of the few t... read more
Trust in the elusive and mysterious beast that is the British constitution relies on the decency of our politicians. As a nation, we have perhaps been complacent about the erosion of our his... read more
Argues that today's Sino-American rivalry in micro-processing is as important in geopolitical terms as the economics of oil was at the time of the first Gulf War.
Ressa, CEO of the Phillipine's top digital news site, jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her efforts to "safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and... read more
Enacted first in 1689 to address abuses by the Crown, the Bill of Rights was recently invoked to check abuses by Government acting in the name of the Crown - the unlawful attempt to prorogue... read more
A lucid look at the extreme measures passed during the 764-day state of emergency, without debate or scrutiny of Parliament, and the constitutional chaos that has resulted. Take a sea on a p... read more
The murderer from The Book of Evidence is released from prison and enters the troubled world of the Godleys, whom we met in Infinities. Tricksy (of course) and brilliant.
75 years of Englishness in this state-of-the-nation tale, passed through Coe's comic and prismatic imagination. Like the protagonist of his new novel, Coe was born and brought up near the Bo... read more
A vivid novel about Edith Somerville, co-author of the Irish R.M., set against the backdrop of burnings, politics and lawlessness of Ireland in the early 1920s.
A long novel in which an artist watches versions of himself slip away into alcohol and loneliness. (Previously published as three separate paperbacks).
In Regency England, a girl has the gift of predicting the weather. In order to move freely, she disguises herself as a man - which becomes problematic when she falls in love.
Two families tangled in a story of forbidden love, from the Georgian author (who writes in German) of the bestselling The Eighth Life. This is considerably shorter than that first, excellent... read more
A deft and powerful retelling of the myth of Medusa - the only mortal born to a family of gods, whose life was upended by Athene's revenge on Poseidon. Haynes' work is always exciting.
Flemish collaboration in WW2, by the author of War and Turpentine, who bought an old house in Ghent only to discover, after twenty years, that a previous occupant was an SS officer. Hertmans... read more
A novel about the harrowing life of the great Russian poetess. She was involved with both Pasternak and Rilke; her daughter died in the Moscow famine; her husband was executed; and she herse... read more
The fragmented recollections of a handful of survivors of the earthquake that struck the northern Friuli in 1976. Their tiny village high in the Julian Alps, beneath the immense karstic mass... read more