Tinderbox: The Unpredictable Rise and Uncertain Future of Modern India
A devastating critique of India’s failure to fulfil its founding promises.
Geopolitics
This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian Story
‘Propulsive … a taut thriller’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
‘I think I hear Solzhenitsyn applauding in his grave’ ERIK LARSON
The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Putin’s Russia – a glimpse inside the perils and contradictions of a country ruled by autocracy.
Three Weeks in July: 7/7, the aftermath and the deadly manhunt
‘A superb book’ – Observer
‘Gripping, vivid and compelling’ – The Critic
‘Humane, absorbing and meticulous’ – New Statesman
‘An extraordinary book’ James O’Brien, TLS
Three Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event.
Little Blue Dot: How the Global Positioning System Shaped the Modern World
In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system – in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pockets
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words
‘Beautiful, thought-provoking, and compelling’ SUSIE DENT
‘An extremely moving, passionate plea’ CAL FLYN
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After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order
‘The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.’ EMMANUELE COCCIA
What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future.
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)
A SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER
A Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025
‘Educational, smart and funny’ Richard Osman
‘This book is superb’ Charlie Brooker
‘Brilliant. Fascinating. Hilarious.’ Jonn Elledge, bestselling author of A History of the World in 47 Borders
The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion
‘Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine’s frontlines – some to save democracy, some to save themselves. A modern-day Homage to Catalonia – and Fight Club on steroids.’ – Oliver Poole, London Standard
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
‘A brilliant book’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics
‘The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping’ Catherine Belton
‘A brilliant, engagingly written and timely book’ Owen Matthews
‘A very good book’ Mark Galeotti
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
‘ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE’ NOAM CHOMSKY
In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation left off.
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES
‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH