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Despite dire warnings about autocracy and human rights, expert voices urge greater understanding of this ever more powerful player
Set onboard the ISS, Samantha Harvey’s novel makes a clarion call for our planet through existential awe
Bryan Washington follows 2020’s ‘Memorial’ with a novel about the vulnerabilities of life and connections that make us happy
Annabelle Hirsch explores items from prehistory to the present day to reveal a fight for individuality and agency
From political wrongdoing in rotten boroughs to intrigue in Hollywood — plus the return of Mitch McDeere and Cormoran Strike
The multiple Trump biographer returns to the media mogul and finds a once powerful figure shaded by ‘doubt, ambivalence, regret’
No tale of ghosts and scares is complete without the spooky presence of a feared familiar
This autumnal work about a professor haunted by glimpses of his late wife is a riddling but deeply felt meditation on grief
Part history, part manifesto, the shadow chancellor’s new book highlights brilliant female economists, but borrows without acknowledgment
Physics meets philosophy — and Dante — in possibly the most charming book by a mainstream scientist this year
A reckoning of the collective acceptance of abuse and sexism targeted at women from Britney Spears to Kim Kardashian
The rise of China and how to handle it; Carlo Rovelli flies us to infinity and beyond; a biography of the ageing Rupert Murdoch; Rachel Reeves on female economists; Paul Auster’s grief-stricken 18th novel; Naomi Alderman’s apocalyptic tech dystopia; a look back at a decade of misogyny; a new translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s ‘The Possessed’ — plus Suzi Feay’s pick of the best debut fiction
The correct mixture of openness and deceit to prepare young people for the world is always up for debate
Her groundbreaking work moved beyond queens and kings to recover the lost voices of people on society’s margins
In a new book, William Smalley goes in search of buildings that contain the elusive quality of quietude
Leading book groups admit, amid questions over new work by UK shadow chancellor, that few use software to spot copying
Group that launched Harry Potter series says copyright not sufficiently being protected
‘The Women Who Made Modern Economics’ contains examples of apparent plagiarism
Lessons on thinking clearly and a critique of bottom line accounting
A compelling tale about tech tycoons leading the world to a cataclysmic end
The Polish modernist’s exuberant, high-octane prose is deftly captured by Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation
From global crises to rising geopolitical tensions, the philosopher warns us against assuming that progress is inevitable
A Vietnamese Australian struggles with identity, an African is fleeced by the unscrupulous and more
England’s legal framework has been bolted together over centuries, and not always in the most efficient way
History book disappears from shops and online searches are blocked as Beijing strengthens control of information flows
A mystery novel about a house that turns into a ghost, of sorts, from the author of bestseller Six Four
Fines are falling out of fashion but some institutions don’t want to lose the cash that hoarders bring in
Jane Martinson tries to get inside the secretive lives of the wheeler-dealer twins and their business empire
Given the furore it created among antifeminist ‘defenders’ of Homer’s war epic, this new version is surprisingly traditionalist
This intense, affecting story of slavery and escape in the antebellum South is a confidently contrary take on Dante
Reading longer texts fostered our empathy for others. How will we cope without it?
An original and deeply fascinating feminist work places the heroine of Nineteen Eighty-Four under the spotlight
Two new books warn of the dangers of separatism as both right and left envision a society divided
Getting out of your comfort zone can help you overcome obstacles and achieve success, says psychologist and author Adam Grant
Giuliano da Empoli’s first novel is a fictional account of the Russian president’s rise, told through the eyes of a shadowy political adviser
The English novelist’s final book blends a memoir of his convalescence in America with the story of his parents’ WWII romance
Alice Albinia tours the British Isles in search of eccentrics, radicals and rebels
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