Stanford, with its huge budget and undisputed fame, seemed like tech heaven to seventeen-year-old Theo Baker. What Baker found instead was a cultural decay.

A gifted young journalist offers a glimpse into Silicon Valley’s incubator, portraying it as a lavish environment of extreme indulgence, inaccessible to most. 

His investigations will ultimately lead to the resignation of the university’s president, a celebrated neuroscientist known for his sterling reputation.

Baker grants us exceptional access to this exclusive American milieu, revealing the ambitious and unprincipled reality behind the organisation that shapes the new rulers.

In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments.

Every time she passes by, she flinches. An overwhelming urge will soon compel her to stray from her roles as mother, wife, and daughter, leading her to discover a chorus of surprising voices and perhaps even find purpose, solace, redemption, or her ultimate disappearance…

The lauded author of A Ghost in the Throat returns with a new, opulent, and multi-layered work. With lush and evocative prose, both powerful and gentle, this work is a memorable fusion of of ghost stories and history, human suffering, and a broad discourse, bluring the lines between then and now, fiction and reality. 

Babylon, believed by some to be the site of the Tower of Babel, is frequently seen as more legendary than real and is biblically depicted as a symbol of sinful excess.

As a matter of fact, Babylon existed as a thriving megacity along the Euphrates, home to significant figures.

This compelling academic study by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, informed by exceptional ancient documents, breathes life into this intriguing city, charting its origins, its ascent to world power, and its subsequent descent, collapse, and ultimate ruin.

As a strange contradiction, we live in a condition of ‘participatory inequality', where everyone is involved in our own economic marginalisation through democratic means.

Throughout history, the wealthy few have controlled the masses, but today the divide between oligarchs and the average person is greater than ever. Interestingly, not only is this domination achieved through democracy, but we also don’t revolt against the system. To be precise, we provide support for it.

In this fierce, critical analysis, Winters reveals how modern democracy was built to safeguard the ultra-rich.  A highly insightful political scientist of our time sheds light on our crumbling political reality and suggests methods for tipping the scales

Sally Hayden, a celebrated international correspondent, has dedicated her career to reporting on the most tragic events of our time. 

Across Uganda, Lebanon, Rwanda, and Iraq, she shares true accounts of remarkable love and compassion, even amidst the extreme hardships she has observed. The author of the Orwell Prize-winning book My Fourth Time, We Drowned pens a poignant story about human endurance, highlighting our innate drive for connection despite immense challenges. 

If news could be framed by the efforts people make for the people they love, Hayden questions, will it be more difficult then to dehumanise those who appear different? 

Throughout history, women speaking out have been seen as rebellious and perilous.

In a masterful fusion of memoir, feminist theory, and cultural history, Elkin investigates the wide range of female singing voices and their role in overcoming conventional expectations, capitalist pressures, and discrimination. From Maria Callas to Tori Amos and PJ Harvey, the acclaimed author of Scaffolding provides a unique re-evaluation of women’s singing voices.

Ultimately, the book ponders what imbues women’s singing with such power, leading others to feel a need to manage or influence it?

Modern engineering is transforming civilization.

Fred Mills, founder of The B1M, guides readers through ten remarkable engineering feats transforming our world, including a 170km Saudi Arabian smart city and Japan’s magnetic levitation train. With its blend of information and accessibility, the book clarifies complexities and delves into the economic, environmental, and societal challenges of massive construction projects.

 Delve into how the immense scope of human imagination is set to influence the development of our built world!

The new book by Yanis Varoufakis, a significant political voice and bestselling author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, is now available in paperback.

Powerful and profound, this is a story about Varoufakis’ political life, seen through his family’s history, and a remarkable narrative across a century of Greece’s struggles, beginning in post-colonial Egypt, through the Nazi occupation and the resistance to the Cold War, and today’s economic crisis.

At the heart of the narrative are Eleni, Anna, Trisevgeni, Georgia, and Danaë, women who inspired the economist with their strength and defiance. This book offers hope and direction to those fighting global authoritarianism.

In this eye-opening history, Zuchtriegel reveals the latest discoveries about Pompeii.

 Drawing on new, remarkable findings, the book shares previously unknown human narratives that are finally coming to light. The Buried City reconstructs the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii on 24th August 79 CE, but it also offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the city as it was before: who lived here, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. 

This book gives us a clear sense of Pompeii’s ongoing connection to the present, proving that ancient history is not as distant as we might believe.

The summer of 1976, notorious for its 35ºC temperatures and severe water shortages, is forever etched in memory as Britain’s hottest.

This blistering summer marked a shift from Britain’s post-war stagnation.That year, the UK also experienced a cultural and political wave characterised by a struggling economy, a restless immigrant population, and growing discontent with the existing global order.

Williams revisits the summer of ‘76, blending news accounts, social commentary, and interviews into an evocative, occasionally nostalgic, but consistently candid read. 

Celebrated essayist and critic Geoff Dyer, known for works like Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It and See/Saw, looks back at his youth and reflects the experience of living through a period of significant societal change.

He was born in 1958 to a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, growing up in a post-WWII era that, while frugal, also offered a chance for upward social mobility.

Dyer’s debut memoir, far from depicting hardship, instead celebrates his generation’s opportunities and meditatively explores his working-class upbringing in post-war England, all presented in his distinctive, erudite yet humble voice.