Downfall of a King: Juan Carlos of Spain
A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace.
Society and Social Sciences
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB
LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words
‘Beautiful, thought-provoking, and compelling’ SUSIE DENT
‘An extremely moving, passionate plea’ CAL FLYN
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025*
‘The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await’ The Guardian
‘A magisterial feat’ New Scientist
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Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Waterstones Book of the Year
‘The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings’s portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings these men to life with sensitivity and beautiful prose’ THE TIMES
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future
Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer’s Story
‘Unflinchingly candid and extraordinarily powerful’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Dominic Gregory hasn’t just delivered a survey of courage and determination – Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed’ TIM WINTON
Do you really think all lives are worth saving?
Custody: The Secret History of Mothers
‘A GREAT ROAR OF A BOOK’ Sunday Times
We think that our children belong to us, but families are fragile things.
After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order
‘The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.’ EMMANUELE COCCIA
What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future.
The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
‘A must-read for anyone curious about how we think.’ Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators
The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires
‘A towering achievement’ MERVE EMRE
NYT Best New Books of 2026
A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made – and resisted – Russia’s many empires.
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics […] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism’ Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing
Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
‘In a world that often makes people feel invisible or overlooked, Jennifer has written something truly profound, a book that arrives at exactly the right cultural moment […] do yourself a favour and pick this one up. You’ll be glad you did’ ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
‘The perfect antidote to our modern mental health epidemic’ PROFESSOR TIM SPECTOR
On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War: Unabridged edition
JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO.
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy
‘A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine
‘A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it, shaped it, and survived it’ NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA, founder of Pussy Riot
Without Prejudice: A Memoir
In a career that has seen him face coup leaders in his native Ivory Coast and lead some of the most prestigious Western financial institutions, Tidjane Thiam has blazed a trail through African and European politics and business.