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Three books present a case for optimism ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, and in the face of looming environmental catastrophe
Two books champion rarely heard voices to chart the chaos and convulsions that blighted the country throughout the cold war and beyond
This investigation of cold war manoeuvring sees the west as undermining fledgling democracies for geopolitical and economic ends
An incisively argued and thrilling moment-by-moment examination of one of the French Revolution’s most dramatic days
Hillary Clinton follows Bill into thriller territory; murder in Sixties LA; short stories from Sara Paretsky; and a valediction for Montalbano
The neuroscientist says our perceptions have little to do with intelligence and everything to do with sensing our environment to stay alive
A new look at two giants of postwar economics whose views shaped the free market
The Pulitzer-winner’s new novel follows a tale through time and makes the case that all stories are, in the end, the same
The horrors of Hoxha’s Albania, John le Carré’s final novel and new ones by Anthony Doerr and Lauren Groff, two giants of economics, and the nature of consciousness — plus Alex Clark’s round-up of audio books
An imagined life of a 12th-century nun and writer on courtly love brings a subversive slant to life in a ‘flawed female utopia’
The story of how a low-cost means of investment democratised finance and perhaps even changed capitalism
Le Carré’s ability to inhabit the deepest recesses of his characters is on sparkling display in his final completed book
A rural English cottage and an exquisite Arizona adobe befit Bilbo Baggins’ desires for cosiness and sociability surrounded by nature
TV scriptwriters awarded Spain’s Planeta prize for their work under the pseudonym Carmen Mola
Two authors offer well-researched homages to the survival of the fittest of the UK’s Arcadian estates
There’s nothing Minnie the Minx about the returns on these comics
From the problems with seeking fulfilment at work to new ways of assessing risk, here are this month’s top titles
From Bridget Riley and William Egglestone to Oscar Murillo, a selection of artists are shown in a new light
Memoirs from Stevie Van Zandt, Miriam Margolyes and Bob Mortimer, plus reimagined lives from Colm Tóibín and Lauren Groff
It’s been 50 years since three iconic publications warned of environmental suicide. So what can they teach us?
Q&A with the novelist on Flaubert, education and wanting to be one of the Famous Five
Understated Tanzanian exile who writes of lives caught in the tidal waves of history
Who needs Bond? The writer’s gritty, forward-looking cold war spy novels, now released as Penguin Modern Classics, captured the true energy of the 1960s
The third Lucy Barton novel adds another satisfying piece to the character’s complex jigsaw
As tech innovation continues to reshape our world, how can we best counter the disruptions it causes?
Tanzanian novelist praised for ‘compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee’
A poet follows the courses of the city’s lost rivers in a lyrical meditation on landscapes that is part social history, part memoir
This assessment of the way cryptocurrencies will change the financial system argues that the state will always remain in control
Two books written by Germans assess the final days of the Third Reich — and the rebuilding of a newly divided nation
This vivid portrait of a preacher’s family in the 1970s Midwest shows the novelist at his perceptive best
The return of Lemony Snicket, spooky stories, prehistoric and rainforest adventures and fairy tale frolics are among the latest releases
We explore how the music industry has changed and meet its most powerful player, Sir Lucian Grainge
From ‘Winter Recipes from the Collective’, the Nobel laureate’s latest collection
Patrick Mackie’s guide shakes us out of taking the easy beauty of the composer’s music for granted
The failures of the Modernist ideal are charted in this life of the architect who designed the World Trade Center
His latest novel examines the life of the German writer Thomas Mann, and the intense yearnings that hid behind his air of cool detachment
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