An FT Best Book of the Year
‘Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan – brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible – he transformed the Afghan media landscape and brought serious news, and exceptional entertainment to millions in the most testing circumstances imaginable’ Rory Stewart
1996: The year that shaped a generation, revisited three decades on by Ex Sun Editor, Dominic Mohan
An Observer ‘book to look out for’ in 2026
A New Scientist pick for 2026
The Surge is a timely, gripping account of humanity’s battle against rising waters — and the urgent choices we must make for our future.
A compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil. Including the historical journals of Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank; snapshots of art and culture in the diaries of Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain; and windows into the past from Queen Victoria and John Adams.
A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Economist
LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026
‘This book reads like a spy novel’ FINANICAL TIMES
‘Entertaining and vivid’ OBSERVER
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The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.
And Finally… is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very best ‘…and finally’ segments of the news – those funny, silly and often eccentric stories the newsreaders save until the end of the programme, to leave on a high note.
Argo meets Spotlight, as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent questions about what happens when foreign meddling in elections goes unpunished
