Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is,speechwriter to Obama and co-host of Pod Save the World, investigates the extent to which America sowed the seeds of discord we see across the world today – and what can be done about it.
A timely and controversial examination of thirty years of diplomatic misunderstandings, roads not taken and mutual suspicion that resulted in the terrible tragedy of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine.
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies – and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet
Launching a major new literary voice for 2023, Hungry Ghosts is a classic, masterful novel about violence and religion, family and class, set in 1940s Trinidad
A collection of short stories from one of Russia’s leading contemporary writers, which explores a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past.
From the bestselling author of Mudlarking comes a thoughtful examination of her year exploring the most overlooked part of the city through the changing seasons
An in-depth look at the major challenges facing humanity today and why the city – the ultimate symbol of human ingenuity – is where these battles will be won or lost.
Following the lives of everyday Americans in three cities across two decades, National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos illuminates the origins of America's political fury
A colourful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global centre of the art market – a story of Impressionist masterpieces, contemporary art, loaded buyers, dodgy dealers and huge financial transactions.
A unique homage to the fighter aircraft that won the Battle of Britain, marrying the story of how the author built a replica Spitfire in his garden with the plane's operational history.
A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia – its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography – by the author of The King in the North.
