The Cage: The fight for Sri Lanka & the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
by Gordon Weiss

* Once known for its exquisite tea, drowsy climate, and amiable people, Sri Lanka was the Indian Ocean jewel of the British Empire. After Independence...

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens: The Darkest Chapter in Economic History Since the Slave Trade
by Nicholas Shaxson

* Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system - this secretive world is far bigger, and more central to the world economy, than almost anyone real...

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
by Karen Armstrong

* Drawing on a wide range of material - ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience - Kar...

The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World
by Jonathan Powell

* ‘Niccolò Machiavelli is misunderstood,’ argues Jonathan Powell in his twenty-first-century reworking of the Italian philosopher’s influential m...

Amexica: War Along the Borderline
by Ed Vulliamy

Amexica provides the first full account of the terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border. An area of land more than 2,000 miles long and 100 miles w...

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder

* In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes starved, shot and gassed fourteen million people in a z...

Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
by Roger Penrose

* Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality provided a comprehensive yet readable guide to our present understanding of the l...

Bob Dylan In America
by Sean Wilentz

Growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager. Almost half a century later, now a di...

Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother
by Simon Schama

‘Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called ‘Taste of the Garden of Eden...

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939–45
by Roger Moorhouse

* Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany. It was the backdrop for the most lavish of Nazi ceremonies, the venue for Albert Speer's grandiose ...