Non-fiction
Love and Murder
Daniel Finkelstein
An extraordinary family memoir of tragedy and survival during WWII Daniel Finkelstein’s maternal grandfather, Alfred Wiener, was a decorated hero from the Great War, and is now acknowledged to have be…
ON THE BRINK
Chris Bickerton
A MAJOR NEW HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR. This sweeping work of narrative history argues that Europe has been at the centre of a number of critical historical trends of the last thi…
The Last Slaves
Hannah Durkin
This blockbuster work of history combines original archival research with vivid historical narrative to uncover an unknown American story. It sheds new light on the realities of slavery – and its long…
Tomorrow’s People
Paul Morland
Population is the vast hidden force shaping our future. It is breaking existing institutions and building their replacements, disrupting and destroying an old-world order, and bringing into existence…
Killers of the Flower Moon (Young Readers Edition)
David Grann
This essential book introduced young readers to the Reign of Terror against the Osage people–one of history’s most ruthless and shocking crimes. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the wor…
Men Are Like Melons
Charlotte Sarkozy
Wild Dances
William Lee Adams
William Lee Adams is the pre-eminent voice on Eurovision around the world. With 40 million unique hits yearly, his site, WiwiBloggs, has propelled him to be the cultural critic of this mad and wonderf…
Maybe I Don’t Belong Here
David Harewood
In this powerful memoir, the actor David Harewood recounts his psychotic break-down and recovery — whilst addressing the connection between mental health and issues of race, identity and belonging. Wh…
THE AGE OF UNPEACE
Mark Leonard
“Mark Leonard has reshaped how we look at the world.” — WILL HUTTON Since the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world’s economy, transport and communications and eliminating borders t…
OUCH!
Graham Lawton
In this authoritative and highly entertaining book, science writer Graham Lawton describes what science can — and cannot — tell us about everyday aliments. One of the many strange effects of the Covid…