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China’s global strategy, Joe Biden’s long game, the online data giveaway, new novels from John Banville and Peter Ackroyd, a fresh biography of Seamus Heaney — and our round-up of the best new audiobooks
RF Foster’s enjoyable biography comes into its own on the poet’s navigation through the Troubles
Two books ask how we can take back control of our data in a surveillance society
Evan Osnos asks how the Democrat candidate has defied odds in the race for the White House
Two books take a fascinating look at the origins of today’s lucrative health industry
Wolfram Eilenberger’s book touches on the intertwining lives of philosophers Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin and Cassirer
Three books shed light on the historical forces driving Beijing’s mission for superpower status — and what it means for Asia and beyond
A carefully researched study of Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang
In her book ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’, the host of ‘Gaslit Nation’ warns that the road to autocracy in the US is paved with complacency
The actor brilliantly channels his hero in a memoir of making a film of ‘The Happy Prince’
Fernando Cervantes’ book details the cruel and complicated story of the Spanish conquest of the Americas
The prime minister’s flaws are treated kindly in Tom Bower’s new biography exploring the impact of a miserable childhood
This pacy history of a legendary brand is a love letter to an era of gears and gasoline now accelerating towards its twilight
A passionate believer in freedom and true intellectual, he transformed economic journalism in the UK and beyond
The prince came to power with the bold promise of transforming Saudi Arabia. Two fine books examine MBS’s breathtaking gamble
The mountaineer packs anecdotes and curiosities into his quixotic guide to the ‘roof of the world’
Beguiling biography of a textile man who shaped the Russian avant-garde during dark historical dramas
The interstices of fact and fiction are explored in an intriguing collection of riffs on the transience of our world
The historian’s elegant collection explores war, how it changes us — and why we need to talk about it
Two new books from Noreena Hertz and James Suzman examine our changing relationship with what has always been more than just a job
The economist offers useful rules to help understand the data behind the headlines
This authorised biography is a flattering but essential portrait of one of the great playwrights of our age
Richard J Evans’s book demolishes the myth of Hitler’s postwar life in South America and other Nazi theories
Two enlightening new books describe the long shadow China casts over its southern neighbours
A critique of Labour’s election defeat seeks to give life to the manifesto without the man
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