Michael Walzer A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era “Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky...

Ali Smith O brave new world, that has such people in't.Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red...

Caryn Rose Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic...

Natalia Ginzburg ‘If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.’ GuardianMichele is the beloved only son of a large, dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome. Headstrong and independent, he has disappeared...

Boris Johnson Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson’s Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who...

Paul Auster An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and “genuine American original” ( The Boston Globe ), in...

Shehan Karunatilaka A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead...

Salman Rushdie When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into...

Angela Merkel The New York Times and USA Today bestselling memoir by one of the most important leaders of our timeFor 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for...

Tommy Orange LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!'Among the tragedy .......

Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of...

Gordon Bowker Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James JoyceJames Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, but he was not immediately recognised...