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.
Abundance
Ezra Klein
Time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges – by ditching scarcity politics and embracing visionary action to create an abund…
Vietdamned
Clive Webb
The untold story of the writers and philosophers who took on the United States government for its war in Vietnam
The Gambling Animal
Glenn W. Harrison
Humanity's unique relationship with risk has driven us to defy the evolutionary odds. But as the stakes keep mounting, how long before our luck r…
You Deserve To Be Rich
Rashad Bilal
Two wildly successful founders. One revolutionary playbook for achieving financial freedom – wherever you come from.
Your Right to Protest
Christian Weaver
The indispensable pocket guide to your right to protest, from an expert barrister
The Green Ages
Annette Kehnel
A fascinating look at the medieval precedents for modern sustainable living
The New Breadline
Jean-Martin Bauer
A ground-breaking analysis of the world's hunger crisis and its solutions, from the World Food Programme's Country Director in Haiti
The History of Ideas
David Runciman
What is the history of ideas – and how has it shaped our world today?
Good Chaps
Simon Kuper
From the bestselling author of Chums, a powerful analysis of how corruption shapes British politics
Democracy
Margaret Atwood
In collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
Raja Shehadeh
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide.
The High Seas
Olive Heffernan
The race to control, protect and profit from Earth's new blue frontier
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make c…
Impossible City
Simon Kuper
An unsparing memoir of the city in the twenty-first century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption
Possible
Chris Goodall
The realities of a green new deal from the world's foremost expert on climate technologies
In the Long Run
Jonathan White
A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the climate crisis and global warfare
Ritual
Dimitris Xygalatas
A radical anthropologist takes readers on a journey through the shadow side of human civilisation