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A preview of new titles published between May 2024-April 2025 For this special LGBTQ+ edition of The Bookseller, we've approached the previews a little bit differently, partnering with the Polari [...]

Tendrils of classic Scottish concerns, from the gothic to the landscape, are threaded through the year ahead. Readers' seemingly unquenchable appetite for feminist retellings and witchy tales will be well [...]

IN RECENT YEARS the British economy has tended to be in the news for the wrong reasons. Growth has been soggy, inflation has been high and living standards have been [...]

People love lists. The 1,000 richest people, the 100 places to see before you die, the ten most-wanted fugitives; https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/02/27/explaining-history-through-numerical-groupings-is-in-vogue promise to make the chaos of life more manageable. Benjamin [...]

Sometimes the best books don't fit into neat categories, which is the case for my January Book of the Month, Swapna Haddow and Yiting Lee's Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings. In [...]

NOVELISTS HAVE long imagined, and warned of, the threat to liberal places from totalitarian rule. British writers of the 20th century, including George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Robert Harris, won [...]

AS INDIA GOES to the polls, Narendra Modi, the prime minister, can boast that the https://www.economist.com/india-election-2024 is taking place in its fastest-growing major economy. India's GDP, at $3.5trn, is now [...]

ON JANUARY 22nd 2024 Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, inaugurated the inner sanctum of a new temple in Ayodhya in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The temple is [...]

MANY SPORTS can make plausible claims to be the world's best pastime. But when it comes to spawning great literature, baseball stands alone. American libraries dedicate shelves upon shelves to [...]

IMAGINE IT. You are an omnipotent, omniscient deity. You have created not only the world and everything in it but also the sky, the stars, the heavens and, for that [...]

IN 'THE REPUBLIC' Plato asked readers to consider the implications of the ring of Gyges, which makes its wearer invisible. How would (and should) people act if they knew that [...]

THE GHOST of Joseph Conrad haunts the writer of any book about the Democratic Republic of Congo. 'Heart of Darkness', published in 1902, is ultimately a tale of man and [...]

CHRISTMAS CAN be a trying subject for writers. The saccharine frivolities, rampant materialism and regimented cheerfulness do not naturally lead to the creation of great works of art. Many books [...]

Current affairs and politics Deadly Quiet City. By Murong Xuecun. New Press; 336 pages; $27.99. Hardie Grant; £14.99 In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, a celebrated Chinese writer [...]

CAIRO - 19 November 2023: In these heavy days, we bear witness to the atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza carrying our sense of belonging to its people, [...]

Editor's note: This article was updated on November 20th 2023 to take in the results of Argentina's presidential election. ON NOVEMBER 19th https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/11/20/is-argentinas-new-president-too-divisive-to-fix-a-broken-economy, a self-described 'anarcho-capitalist', to be its next [...]

A Peace to End All Peace. By David Fromkin. Holt, Henry & Company; 688 pages; $26 Tensions in the Middle East are a political inheritance of the dissolution of the [...]

ON OCTOBER 14th nearly 18m Australians will vote in a referendum on whether to give indigenous people a 'Voice to Parliament'. They will decide whether to enshrine in their constitution [...]

MORE THAN half the world's population lives in cities. In rich countries the share is four-fifths. Contrary to some predictions, remote working has so far done little to interrupt the [...]

WHERE THERE are two Poles, there are three opinions, goes a Polish saying. Poland's tumultuous history and polarised politics give its writers a lot to reflect on and disagree about. [...]

Children's: Pre-school Title Author; Illustrator 1 (c) Frog's Day Out Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler 2 (b) My Big Rainbow Book - of ... 3 (d) The Pandas Who Promised Rachel [...]

Paperback Non-fiction Title Author 1 (c) Ultra-Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2 (b) Murdle G T Karber 3 (d) How They Broke Britain James O'Brien 4 (a) Small Talk Richard [...]

Children's & YA Fiction Title Author; Illustrator 1 (b) The Scarlet Shedder Dav Pilkey 2 (b) The Prisoner's Throne Holly Black 3 (c) Powerful Lauren Roberts 4 (b) Powerless Lauren [...]

Hardback Non-fiction Title Author 1 (b) How to Eat 30 Plants a Week H Fearnley-Whittingstall 2 (d) So Good Emily English 3 (c) Bored of Lunch ... 30 Minute Nathan [...]

Original Fiction Title Author 1 (a) The Honey Witch Sydney J Shields 2 (c) You Are Here David Nicholls 3 (a) The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley 4 (d) They [...]

Mass-Market Fiction Title Author 1 (c) The Last Devil to Die Richard Osman 2 (b) Yellowface Rebecca F Kuang 3 (d) Someone Else's Shoes Jojo Moyes 4 (b) The Bee [...]

One of the most hyped books of 2023's Bologna Children's Book Fair will hit bookshelves in August and, luckily for Faber and debut author Moira Buffini, it lives up to [...]

Hardback Non-fiction Title Author 1 (a) So Good Emily English 2 (a) How to Eat 30 Plants a Week H Fearnley-Whittingstall 3 (d) Bored of Lunch... 30 Minute Nathan Anthony [...]

Children's & YA Fiction Title Author; Illustrator 1 (a) The Incredible Holiday Stephen Mulhearn & Hideout Tom Easton 2 (b) The Scarlet Shedder Dav Pilkey 3 (b) Powerful Lauren Roberts [...]

R F Kuang, Sebastian Barry, Alice Oseman and Katherine Rundell have been shortlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, which are curated by independent bookshops. The awards are held during [...]