Current Affairs
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The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
Read more ▸ Order ▸It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a...
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The Twittering Machine
Richard Seymour
Read more ▸ Order ▸In surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts...
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Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation
Kishore Mahbubani
Read more ▸ Order ▸The West’s two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order,...
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We Have Been Harmonised
Kai Strittmatter
Read more ▸ Order ▸In China’s shiny new ‘Smart Cities’, citizens can scarcely cross the road or buy an...
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Read more ▸ Order ▸When ‘The Silk Roads’ was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major...
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How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong
James O'Brien
Read more ▸ Order ▸The voice of reason in a world that won’t shut up.
Every day, James O’Brien listens...
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Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Read more ▸ Order ▸The award-winning full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the...
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Tell Me How it Ends
Valeria Luiselli
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An essential read that will change your perception of immigration. The stories of unaccompanied...
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Big Data
Brian Clegg
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A brief and vivid explanation of a topic that is increasingly underpinning our lives...
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The Descent of Man
Grayson Perry
Read more ▸ Order ▸Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity – what it is, how it operates, why...
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Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
Harari is wise not to make any accurate predictions for the future. ‘Homo Deus’...
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Playing to the Gallery
Grayson Perry
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A no nonsense, irreverent guide to appreciating art.
Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member...