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The Castle by Jon Ronson | 'an anti-sensationalist yet utterly compelling investigation into the masculinity crisis' - Dolly Alderton | 'Fantastic and intensely of the moment' - Patrick Radden Keefe | 'I was utterly gripped from page one' - Marina Hyde | SIGNED EDITION

Ronson's first book in 11 years, described as his “funniest, darkest and most personal book to date”. It centres on a mysterious castle in the forests of New England, to which his son Joel is lured under false pretences by the wealthy scion of a gilded-age tycoon. The result is a darkly comic true crime mystery, which gives us Ronson’s inimitable take on the masculinity debate.

What Happened to Liberal Democracy? by Daron Acemoglu

A new theory of liberal democracy - charting its rise and fall - from the Nobel Prize-winning co-author of Why Nations Fail

The epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media

An intimate yet epic portrait of a little understood country, by the award-winning war correspondent and bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul

Ghiblipedia by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham | Explore the characters, creatures, people and places of Studio Ghibli in this beautifully illustrated encyclopedia | SHOP NOW

IN CONVERSATION | Anand Gopal with Sally Hayden | Wed 2nd Sep, 7pm | Foyles Charing Cross Road

IN CONVERSATION | Valeria Luiselli with Octavia Bright | Thu 3rd Sep, 7pm | Foyles Charing Cross Road

A compulsive saga of three generations of women and the ghost of a man cut in two on a train track, spanning Calcutta, London and New York

A language-bending story that weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven

A publishing phenomenon in Germany during the 1920s, B. Traven (1882–1969) was a German born, Mexican naturalised author who rejected his privileged background, became an anarchist and wrote books from the point of view of the underclass. 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of his extraordinary novel The Death Ship (Das Totenschiff) - long unavailable in the UK - and to celebrate, Penguin Classics have published it along with two other of Traven's most loved books, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Bridge in the Jungle.