Baldwin

by Nicholas Boggs

Boggs’ biography on James Baldwin shows how the literary giant channelled the intricate dynamics of his relationships into his writing, and how they also deeply influenced his personal life.

Supported by exclusive archival evidence and interviews, Boggs delves into the writer’s life, from his journeys in Harlem, Paris, and Africa to his pivotal relationships with figures like his mentor, the Black American painter Delaney, and his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger.

This book enhances our comprehension of a significant twentieth-century literary figure who profoundly influenced the civil rights movement and Black queer literary history.

Stay Alive

Berlin 1939-1945

by Ian Buruma

The outbreak of war in September 1939 had remarkably little immediate impact on the appearance of the German capital. Unless you were Jewish.

Buruma’s account of wartime Berlin, drawing from diaries, letters, and memoirs, offers a powerful and immediate glimpse into everyday life, featuring everyone from movie stars and swing dancers to resistance members and SS officers.

Stay Alive is revelatory, devastating, and deeply humane, showing how ordinary people dealt with the moral disaster of the Third Reich, including resistance, conformity, and survival. Buruma’s critical and timely work explains the step-by-step normalisation of evil in society.

Murder in Paris '68

A True Story of Death and Glamour

by Edward Chisholm

Paris in the 1960s was a city where society’s extremes met. In this age of glitz, fast cars, and exclusive clubs, filled with movie stars, powerful mobsters, and corrupt politicians, the enigmatic actor known as ‘the most beautiful man in the world,’ Alain Delon, lives on the edge.

But when Stevan, his associate, is found dead on the outskirts of Paris, questions arise.

The celebrated author of A Waiter in Paris plunges readers into the city’s demimonde. Here, we experience the unfolding events of The Marković Affair intimately from within, observing its descent into chaos and its impact on Alain Delon and all those around him.

Days of Love and Rage

A Story of Revolution

by Anand Gopal

In 2011, a small group of men and women in a northern Syrian city started a movement that led to the overthrow of a brutal dictatorship.

This experiment in democracy was truly remarkable for modern times. Gopal transports readers to a city in revolution, detailing the personal stories of its leaders and revealing the threat inequality poses to democracy.

With its universal reach, this book examines the current rise of authoritarianism and humanity’s perpetual quest for dignity and hope.

Ukrainian Lessons

Art in a Time of War

by Charlotte Higgins

During the fall of 2022, approximately seven months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, British author and journalist Charlotte Higgins journeyed to the country. Her purpose was to discover how Ukrainian artists and writers were incorporating the devastating events into their creative expressions. That experience would be life-changing for her.

With a war fuelled by the attempted eradication of Ukrainian culture, art has become a matter of life and death.

This urgent, scorching work delves into the profound connections between war, art, and life, highlighting why culture is worth fighting for.

London Falling

A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City, and a Family's Search for Truth

by Patrick Radden Keefe

Teenager Zac Brettler’s life ended mysteriously in 2019 when he fell from a luxury apartment balcony.

When his parents started to investigate his final days, they were taken aback to discover he had been concealing a second life, acting as the son of a Russian tycoon.

Keefe, who won the Gifford prize in 2021 for Empire of Pain, carefully examines the facts of this complex, ongoing crime. With forensic detail, this book examines the events that brought Brettler to the balcony that evening and the unsettling private world he inhabited.

Redwood

The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

by Ben Macintyre

The year 1981 saw Tehran gripped by violent upheaval following the Iranian Revolution. It’s the Soviets’ plan to overthrow the Ayatollah’s nascent Islamist regime. Should they act, a secret American response would be nuclear retaliation.

Here’s the story of how, during the Cold War’s peak, a shadowy double agent codenamed ‘Redwood’ by MI6 uncovered the Kremlin’s clandestine plan, averting a global catastrophe. This is a tale of friendship, marriage, treachery, and sexual dysfunction, and how decisions made in secret can have huge long-term ramifications.

Using new material and interviews with agents from MI6, MI5, KGB, and CIA, this book reveals the true nature of espionage and a crucial, overlooked Cold War triumph.

The Nord Stream Conspiracy

The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World

by Bojan Pancevski

A huge undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption was detected by Scandinavian seismologists in September 2022. Several catastrophic explosions destroyed Nord Stream, a $20 billion pipeline that transported Russian gas to Europe via the Baltic Sea, leading to these signals.

The explosions caused a seismic shift in international relations, crippled European economies, and launched an investigation that strained NATO ties. To this day, the perpetrators have not been identified.

This rigorously researched non-fiction thriller, informed by extensive first hand reporting and unique access to crucial figures, unveils the authentic account of a significant geopolitical enigma of our era.

Alexander

God, King, Man

by Edmund Richardson

For hundreds of years, historians have recounted the tale of Alexander, a man who rapidly ascended to kingship, heroism, and divinity. However, Alexander has remained an enigma.

This remarkable new biography of Alexander the Great, penned with exceptional skill and vividness, relies on recent discoveries and the author’s translations of source material from twelve ancient languages.

In this scholarly and splendid work of non-fiction, Richardson escorts readers on a captivating voyage, stretching from the catacombs of Egypt to the rugged terrain of Afghanistan, and for the first time, we meet Alexander the man, not just the legend.

Hotel Exile

Paris in the Shadow of War

by Jane Rogoyska

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2026, this book tells the fascinating story of how one Paris hotel has borne the significance of an entire century.

The Grand Hotel Lutetia has always been a hub for Europe’s bohemian artists and writers, including figures like André Gide and Matisse. During the 1930s, the hotel hosted intellectuals and political activists escaping Hitler, and by the start of the war and Paris’s occupation, it served as the German military intelligence headquarters. Camp survivors found shelter at the Lutetia in 1945.

Rogoyska’s work is an exceptional piece of  non-fiction writing, masterfully blending empathy with historical accuracy to describe life on the brink of war.

Never Say War

Life Inside Russia

by Âsne Seierstad (author), Siân Mackie (translator)

Russia under Putin suppresses its citizens, targets international journalists, and invaded a neighbouring nation, all while prohibiting any mention of the country being at war. This is what we know from the outside, but what does it feel like on the inside?

Seierstad’s entry point into this story was Andrey Medvedev, a young Russian soldier who deserted the notorious Wagner Group and requested asylum in Norway in 2023. Three years old when Putin rose to power, his life story mirrors the transformation of his country.

This deeper exploration of Medvedev’s family and connections provides a broader view of Russian society. With incredible expertise on Russia and unparalleled access, this study crafts a personal and epic portrait of a country that is both romanticised and misunderstood. 

The Great Dictator

A Life of Barbara Cartland

by Matthew Sweet

This brilliant biography of Barbara Cartland uncovers the person beneath the makeup, a shrewd and socially vulnerable author making her way through a 20th-century landscape filled with men scarred by war, class struggles, and dangerous sexual encounters.

From Mayfair bedrooms to the divorce court, Matthew Sweet traces Cartland’s extraordinary journey through a century of turmoil, spanning terrorist plots, scandals, plagiarism disputes and her surprising transformation into a proponent of Romany rights.

A wonderfully engaging examination of class, celebrity, scandal, and ego, this work functions as a tripartite piece of satire, biography, and social history.

The Traveller

The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity

by Andrea Wulf

George Forster was a revolutionary figure who travelled to the furthest corners of the globe, questioning the prevailing beliefs of 18th-century Europe. He has, however, been largely erased from history.

This work re-establishes Forster as a preeminent visionary of his time, characterised by an exceptional intellect fuelled by insatiable curiosity and a profound conviction in equality and freedom.

From Europe to Tahiti, and drawing on extensive correspondence, much of which has not been published in English, Andrea Wulf, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Nature, illuminates the life of an extraordinary and passionate man who defied geographical, social, and institutional boundaries.

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