Tinderbox: India’s Slide Towards Turmoil
A devastating critique of India’s failure to fulfil its founding promises.
William Collins
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner’s Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today’s world of global turmoil.
Monumental
One of the world’s most pre-eminent stonemasons, Simon Warrack, as takes us through the stories behind some of the greatest buildings and monuments that he has helped to conserve for generations to come – from the Trevi Fountain to Angkor Wat and Canterbury Cathedral.
Inconceivable: Reproduction in the Age of Uncertainty
Who can afford to have children in the 21st century? New Yorker journalist Anna Louie Sussman investigates the true cost of creating life in the modern world.
The Twitnam Summer
A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag.
Rule of Lies: A True Story of Chaos, Corruption and Murder in Putin's Russia
An American lawyer’s brilliant, propulsive story of witnessing and playing a part in the transformation of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. A true tale of fascinating personalities, criminal intrigue, harrowing situations, audacious actions and international politics that combines Bill Browder’s Red Notice with Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker.
Ghosts of the Night: The Extraordinary Lives of British Owls
The silent approach of a white angel over a paddock is one of the most alluring images in the British
Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands
Ancient trees, some over a thousand years old, are dotted around the British Isles, the last survivors of a lost world. Now, new scientific studies of these trees and of fossilised forests and of our oldest wooden artifacts can help us to understand the many woodlands that have disappeared from our landscapes.
I, Vera: The dangerous life of a radical princess
Princess Vera Giedroytz was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian Princess who habitually wore a man’s suit, played billiards with brilliance, and regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery, while on occasion forcibly ejecting an inquisitive Rasputin from her operating theatre by throwing him down the stairs.