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A riveting account tracks a snakes-and-ladders path, from tough beginnings in Communist Hungary to paving the way for Covid vaccines
Sathnam Sanghera embarks on a globetrotting quest for nuance and honesty about the UK’s imperial past
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Clair Wills’s story of a family discovery is compelling not just on a personal level but as a vignette of recent Irish history
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Colin Mayer advocates the power of business — but calls out what is wrong, and how profit could benefit people and the planet
Psychologist Vincent Deary explains what takes place during a breakdown and the essentials for recovery
A revelatory history of the 1950s youth cult challenges convention, but skirts some difficult truths
Four books look at the forging of a new Ukrainian national identity in the furnace of war — and a glimmer of light in the Russian exiles who have fled their homeland
Rather than rejecting monogamy outright, this thoughtful foray into free love asks if polyamory can enrich a couple’s relationship
An English eccentric’s account of life as a perennial traveller and perpetual outsider
Gary Bass’s grand account of the postwar trial of Japan’s leaders shows politics and public opinion matter more than legalities
Marcy Norton takes a fascinating look at how animals were treated as thinking, feeling beings in many pre-colonial societies
A captivating if gory history of Mongol Asia sheds gruesome light on a conqueror who began life as a sheep-stealer
Anthony Grafton’s scholarly account of the learned ‘magicians’ who claimed to raise the dead has fascinating parallels to self-help gurus and influencers
A survey of tens of thousands of people by one of Google’s top AI researchers delivers compelling insights into the faultlines running through US society
From Ramsay MacDonald to Keir Starmer, three new books offer lessons for the party as it prepares for a general election
Many chief executives say they are too busy to lose themselves in a book — but they could profit from liberating their imaginations
Annabel Abbs looks at how writers, artists and scientists —many of them women — have used sleeplessness to fuel their creativity
Declassified documents show then prime minister approved 1980 plan to disclose MI5 espionage probe into former chief
From an AI-guided future to scandals in the art world and new fiction from Rachel Cusk and Colm Tóibín, a preview of some of the titles to look out for in the coming year
A sweeping account of the Egyptian leader’s role in shaping his country and the wider region — and his continuing influence today
Two books look at the urban environment past and present — and ask how it will evolve in the 21st century
A dramatised account of the tycoon’s acquisition and the rebrand as X attempts to get inside his head — but takes liberties
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