Society & Essays

Tahir Hamut Izgil Paperback 246 pages If you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest

Mark O'Connell Paperback 287 pages

Ben Judah Paperback 496 pages What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Irelan

Tim Harford Softback 352 pages Based on the series produced for the BBC World ServiceWho thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill

David Omand Hardback 368 pages We never know when a crisis might explode. Some 'sudden impact' events, such as terrorist attacks or natural di

Eric Williams Paperback 304 pages Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944

Scott Shapiro Hardback 432 pages Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them beforeFancy Bear was hungry. Looking f

Tom Phillips Paperback 384 pages From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature

Oded Galor Paperback 304 pages This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have

Hannah Dawson Paperback 720 pages The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning a

Angela Gallop Paperback 272 pages CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by lawForensic science is on

Mariana Mazzucato - Rosie Collington Paperback 368 pages There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way busin

Robert D. Kaplan hardback 152 pages Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent re

Isabel Wilkerson Paperback 528 pages From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what

Tara Westover Paperback 400 pages Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doct

Koa Beck Paperback 320 pages 'Don't judge this book by its cover. Koa Beck knows that feminism includes all women and girls by definition, an

Alex Belser, Clancy Cavnar, Beatriz Caiuby Labate Paperback 256 pages

Mona Chollet Paperback 304 pages Renowned journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model: an emblem of strength, free to exis

William Magnuson Paperback 357 pages We have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power. Bu

Suzanne Wrack Paperback 256 pages This is the inspirational, agenda-changing story of women's football around the world. A Woman's Game exp

Geoff White Paperback 288 pages Meet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. It's c

Kerry Brown & Kalley Wu Tzu Hui Paperback 288 pages An important and timely guide to one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for future

Justin Fenton Paperback 352 pages Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reach

PaperbackW. E. B. Du Bois When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in Ame