‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics […] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism’ Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing
‘Pacy, witty and authoritative’ Jonathan Freedland
‘In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern… a powerful and important book’ Daily Telegraph
Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE
A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE
A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press’ NAOMI KLEIN
‘Essential reading’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize*
‘Gripping and profoundly moving’ DAMON GALGUT
‘Deft and operatic’ OBSERVER
No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it.
**Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature**
A devastating account of China’s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE
WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY
‘Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt metaphor for this fraught moment in Saudi Arabia’s history.’THE WASHINGTON POST
‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics
Concise and Abridged Edition
Do we really have the right to say the ‘wrong’ thing?
‘I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd’ Guardian
