Current Affairs, Politics & Economics
From Jonathan Sumption’s The Challenges of Democracy and Daron Acemoglu’s What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, to Paris Marx’s Hyperscale and Eleanor Drage’s What If We Got AI Right?, our Current Affairs books cover geopolitics, the rule of law and the generative technology shaping our world. Essential for readers interested in international politics, journalism and technology.
Hyperscale
Paris Marx
Award-winning tech critic Paris Marx traces the devastating physical footprints of our digital world
Securing Freedom
Eliza Manningham-Buller
The former head of MI5 on freedom, intelligence, the rule of law, torture and security
Earth Shapers
Maxim Samson
How humans harnessed the geographical landscape and wrote ourselves onto our surroundings
Staying True to You
Dr. Patricia Faison Hewlin
A unique roadmap to finding freedom from the pressures of expectation in modern working life
What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
Daron Acemoglu
A new theory of liberal democracy from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Why Nations Fail
What If We Got AI Right?
Eleanor Drage
An expert's guide to taking control of AI, and building a future that works for all
Shifting Sands
Judith Scheele
A radical new account of the Sahara – from pre-history to the present day
The World in Turmoil
John Andrews
John Andrews explores our troubled world in this successor to The World in Conflict, which sold over 30,000 copies
Hinterlands
Hannah Lucinda Smith
A timely eyewitness account of the overlooked territories where the new Cold War is playing out
World Cup Fever
Simon Kuper
The story of how football transformed the world, told through nine World Cups – by one of our most talented football writers
How to Invest
Peter Stanyer
How to manage your money in the era of cryptocurrencies and digital trade
The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer
A grand, sweeping history of the evolution of morality across the entire existence of humankind
From Life Itself
Suzy Hansen
The Pulitzer finalist tells the fascinating story of the rise of an authoritarian Turkey under Erdogan through the microcosm of life in a local Istanb…
The Illegals
Shaun Walker
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel
Forgotten
Raja Shehadeh
From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise
The Challenges of Democracy
Jonathan Sumption
A provocative series of essays from the former Supreme Court judge and Sunday Times-bestselling author
We Survived the Night
Julian Brave NoiseCat
An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent
Economics: The Economist Guide
Philip Coggan
The definitive Economist guide to the world of economics
Slow Down or Die
Timothée Parrique
One of France's bestselling economists issues an inspiring call-to-arms to embrace a greener, more sustainable future
Extractive Capitalism
Laleh Khalili
An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalisation – and how to fight back