Is there anything better fun at Christmas than a light read about dysfunctional rich people? Look no further than Revenge (Blink Publishing, 2022), Tom Bower’s new book about ‘Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors’. I first discovered Tom Bower when I read...
Looking for a cracker of a non-fiction Christmas read for yourself or that difficult-to-buy-for in-law? We’d heartily recommend this one. Beyond (HarperCollins, 2021) tells the tale of Yuri Gagarin and the race between the USSR and United States (US) to be first to...
If you’re looking for a fast-paced chronological history of books, this isn’t it (though Mark Kurlansky’s Paper: Paging Through History might be more up your alley). Instead, Papyrus by Irene Vallejo (translated by Charlotte Whittle) unravels as a series of literary...
This is a bold and surprisingly entertaining book about the future of the world that you really hope is outright wrong – or at least, mostly wrong. As the name suggests, Peter Zeihan’s The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization...
Life under communism in Albania – boring, right? Couldn’t be more wrong. Leah Ypi’s biography of growing up in the small Balkan country is riveting. Using rich descriptions, humour and great intelligence, she draws an intricate portrait of herself, her family, her...
Writing from the office of the Greek Ministry of Finance in 2013, economist Yanis Varoufakis turned his knowledge and expertise towards a challenging new audience: his teenage daughter. Varoufakis’s Talking to My Daughter About the Economy (The Bodley Head, $22.99)...
