Books

Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize, 21st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about walking, not quite a collection of humorous essays, but a bit of all five

A darkly funny, razor sharp plunge into America’s most perfect town, where privilege, sex, scandal, and murder lurk beneath a flawless veneer, from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author James Frey

The Iron Lady reconsidered on the 100th anniversary of her birth

A stunning, deeply moving novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in Tiananmen Square protests

A leading military historian examines the WWII leader

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent Tom Wolfe-esque romp through the sacred spaces of woke progressivism

An extraordinary autobiographical novel of one French family’s experiences during the Occupation

A breathtaking novel set at the end of Henry VIII’s reign and the religious upheaval that followed

The extraordinary story of the English takeover of Dutch-controlled Manhattan, and the melting pot that ensued

Why Germany’s political and economic model is failing

A novel of politicians, spies and lovers, from the author of Sell Us the Rope

From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into an aggressive and expanding mental health industry that is harming, not helping, our children

A story of forbidden love and fugitive faith in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle