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Three books offer different answers to why innovation is so maddeningly difficult to achieve
The Italian novelist brilliantly depicts the inner life of a teen on the cusp of womanhood
Journalistic pursuits of wartime abusers by Linda Melvern and the damage of unreconciled atrocities by Christina Lamb
How fears of disaster have created a multi-billion-dollar doom industry
The Booker-longlisted novel depicts the relationship between an addict and her son with compassion and stark realism
From grazing in the Arctic to creating an ‘ecospace’, the wild ideas behind this new book are worth considering
Rian Hughes’s book delights in exploring design’s potential to amplify meaning
A Latin American city is beset by a band of feral kids in the unsettling A Luminous Republic
How pendulum-like swings between interventionist and isolationist impulses have shaped US foreign policy
Collier and Kay’s scathing account of economic self-interest warns of harm to communities
South Korean sensation You-Jeong Jeong’s new ‘whydunit’ is about the search for the truth
Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel begins like a traditional mystery but soon turns into a compelling tale of the narrator’s unravelling
All the books listed for the FT McKinsey Business Book of the Year
Innovation and the real game changers, a look into the world of preppers, war crimes and half-punishments, the radical rewards of rewilding — plus Elena Ferrante’s new novel
Q&A with the author on staying fit at 66, ice cream trips with her grandson and Shar-Pei puppies
Beijing is neither about to collapse nor take over the world
The president’s niece on fear and greed in the Trump family — and why she wrote her explosive tell-all memoir
Fears that poetry would be scrapped from GCSE English brought lyric lovers out in force
Kate Grenville continues her exploration of Australia’s messy, colonial beginnings in a story that prefers to leave some secrets untold
A restless, shifting metropolis comes to life in this clever biography by Amy Stanley
Booker-longlisted Brandon Taylor dissects the pain that white privilege can inflict
A new breed of specialist is now available to help reshape every aspect of your life
An expert dissection of the trends that account for the Italian League’s revival
Lina Wolff’s collection of unsettling short stories takes us inside lives hidden from view
Why you don’t have to love what you do to excel
A mercurial collection of short stories explores with compassion the frailties of the psyche
A timely book argues that racism will persist until the US tackles inherited hierarchy
The novelist’s imagination feeds off the surreal artefacts – not to mention a pair of vintage Prada heels – that adorn the walls of her den
From Parisian high society to a convent in Colombia: the contrasting lives of twin heiresses
From achieving ‘unreasonable’ success to how music jamming sessions can aid workplace inclusion — here are this month’s top titles
Anthony DePalma’s piercing yet affectionate portrait of lives on the communist island
These offbeat short stories by award-winning Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami are fairy tales in the best tradition of the Brothers Grimm
An academic’s entertaining study of the global party scene reveals the gritty truth behind our new gilded age
Sanaë Lemoine’s debut novel echoes the life of the ‘secret’ daughter of François Mitterrand
Martin Conway offers an upbeat message on the phases of democracy for these benighted times
A biologist attempts to track down the elusive Blakiston’s fish owl, and finds its story tangled up in human history
Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s book is the inside story on the country’s economic reforms in the 1990s
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