Kabul's Inter-Continental was opened in 1969 and Doucet (the BBC's Chief International Correspondent) has been staying there regularly since 1988. This is a brilliant history of Afghanistan ... read more
Kurkov's third war diary - after the invasion and siege of the previous two - is a meditation on conflict as an habitual, everyday reality. Professional clowns take up arms, traditional sold... read more
As borders dominate the narrative of global geopolitics, this striking gathering of maps provides valuable insight into a fraught and complex phenomenon.
The gathered reportage of one of our greatest science writers, profiling the radical steps being taken by those on the frontlines of catastrophic climate change.
From the quarterly magazine that's been described by Graydon Carter as the illegitimate child of Evelyn Waugh and Private Eye: a compendium of etiquette, opinion and deliciously seedy trivia... read more
By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature... read more
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
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
Memoir and reportage by the outstanding foreign correspondent (who has covered conflict in Ukraine, Mali, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine), and an anthology of poems that spe... read more
A fascinating group portrait of the journalists (including Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner) who were gathered at Nuremberg - how they behaved wit... read more
Traces the history of Sefton Delmer, the English propagandist who waged a disinformation war in Nazi Germany, and how that history can help us understand the present.
Switching from macro to micro, Stewart has assembled his articles published in his Cumbrian constituency's local paper. The tensions in a bucolic rural landscape...
Neutral for fifty years in his work for the BBC, now he tells us what he thinks and thought about all those prime ministers, presidents, elections and scandals.
Reportage by the courageous foreign correspondent, a former Moscow bureau chief for the Guardian before his expulsion from Russia in 2011, and author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russ... read more
There are only 1000 copies of this in existence, and they are all being sold through real bookshops rather than by online multinationals. Covering 75 years, it is an updated version of the 2... 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 Gibson family of the Scilly Isles photographed shipwrecks for four generations in the C19th and C20th - an extraordinary archive that is now held at the National Maritime Museum in Green... read more
The author is a US journalist who, in 2016, accompanied an Afghan driver determined to leave his country for the West. It is an extraordinary account of how this ghastly odyssey works from t... read more
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