Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire, making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs, celebrities and world leaders vied for ...
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock DoctrineWhat if you woke up one morning and found you'd ac...
In Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the countryside and was forever changed by it. We encounter them at quiet moments – pausing ...
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements tod...
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her dau...
We live in a world made by machines; their development set its beat. This book tells the story of our relationship with machines from humanity's first tools down to the present and into the future....
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden AgeTwenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order...
A documentary filmmaker who spent years uncovering a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice to the millions who suffered through Covid; a magazine publisher who dodges the sec...
A major new celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries'Nowhere have I witnessed real happiness, but surely it is to be found here...'The short story has a ric...
An eye-opening investigation-combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science-into allergies and their stunning rise in recent decadesHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions ...
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a groundbreaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career sp...
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists....
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show t...
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR pr...
'Revelatory reading' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed'After reading historian Quinn Slobodian's new book, you are not likely to think about capitalism the same way' JacobinLook at a ...
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-...
We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear w...
Discover the joy that awaits when you set yourself free...Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent). Sasha has...
A magnificent new biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic...
Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett's own intellect and instructs us how we ...