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In a Flight of Starlings

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of grou...

Shutdown

From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged th...

The Shame Machine

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and...

Our House is on Fire

The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's famil...

Breaking Through Depression

'Compassionate and wide-ranging' The Times'Masterful . . . dis...

A Small Town in Ukraine

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecade...

The Persuaders

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES...

The Machine Age

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how ...

Fire and Flood

The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who h...

The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

We are all familiar with the idea that machines are powered by electricity, but perhaps not so aw...

The 9/11 Wars

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling ...