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.
Red Card
Ken Bensinger
Revised and updated with a new afterword: the full story behind the FIFA's headline-grabbing corruption scandal
How Democracy Ends
David Runciman
All political systems come to an end, even democracies – David Runciman shows us how to recognise the signs and how to think about what might come nex…
Trust Me I'm Lying
Ryan Holiday
The book that predicted fake news, revised and updated for these terrifying times
Game Query
Philip Coggan
The non-trivial trivia quiz book that asks how well you really know your world
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
David Harvey
Marx's Capital explained by its greatest expositor in simple, understandable terms
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile
Roger Scruton
The ideas and principles of conservatism explored and explained by the world's leading thinker on the subject
The Wisdom of Finance
Mihir Desai
Putting the humanity back into finance by looking at the profession's core principles through the prism of art, literature and film.
Mafia Life
Federico Varese
A compelling account of life inside the mafia, from a leading academic: out now in paperback
A Heavy Reckoning
Emily Mayhew
No-holds-barred, powerful medical non-fiction from the bleeding edge of medicine and war: out now in paperback
From Global To Local
Finbarr Livesey
Globalisation was once the vision of the future; not any more. How we make things is changing, and with it the world order
The Fate of the West
Bill Emmott
Is it the end of the world as we know it? A former editor of the Economist explains how Western democracies must change in order to recover and thrive…
Superfandom
Zoe Fraade-Blanar
An in-depth look at the explosion of fandom, and how fans are transforming the future of business
Superfast, Primetime, Ultimate Nation
Adam Roberts
A compelling portrait of modern India – and where it should go next.
Megatech
Daniel Franklin
Taking the long view of the big technology trends that will shape our lives and the future of the planet in the decades ahead
The Long and the Short of It
John Kay
A clear and practical guide to investment by leading economist John Kay. Second revised and updated edition.
The Long and the Short of It (International edition)
John Kay
A clear and practical guide to investment by internationally renowned economist John Kay
Our Revolution
Bernie Sanders
An inside account of Sanders' extraordinary campaign – and a blueprint for future political action.
Hinterland
Chris Mullin
A wry and revealing political memoir from the man behind the celebrated diaries: A View from the Foothills, A Walk-On Part and Decline & Fall
The Switch
Chris Goodall
Tracing the switch from fossil fuels to solar power and looking at the technology, people and trends that will take us there