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On Freedom
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.
Timothy Snyder has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians.
His book On Tyranny has inspi...
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The Revolutionists
The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
2024 || Hardcover || Jason Burke || Vintage Publishing
Not the End of the World
Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Ritchie || Vintage Publishing
'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD'Eye-opening and essential' BILL GATES‘I find it hard to express how much I love this book’ RUTGER BREGMAN'The climate and environmental crisis now has its Hans Rosling' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS'An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet – read it' TIM SPECTORFeeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve themWe are bombarded by doom...
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The Noonday Demon
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Solomon || Vintage Publishing
WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHORLike Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression.
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Unwinnable
Britain’s War in Afghanistan
2024 || Paperback || Theo Farrell || Vintage Publishing
He explains the origins of the war, details the campaigns over the subsequent years, and examines the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict and learn the lessons of history that ultimately led to devastating costs and repercussions still relevant today. 'Masterful, irrefutable...