What is the history of ideas - and how has it shaped our world today?

An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.

This original and deeply provocative book, first published in 1978, was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate – one that remains as critical as ever.

Before she was born, Annie Ernaux's parents had another daughter who died at the age of six from diphtheria. Translated into English for the first time, The Other Girl explores the meaning of this family secret, which Annie only discovered by chance as a child and never discussed with her parents again.

Russia is intent on attacking beyond Ukraine. Can Europe defend itself?

What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Libya, Iran and more to reveal how modern-day diplomacy really works.

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to ...