Oliver Farry

This outstanding book details the privations and inconveniences that beset a population under constant attack, and also the psychological torment the situation engenders

A splendid portrait of layers of identity and resistance in what is no less a settler society than the United States

This is a much-needed retelling of the first year of the invasion, even as the passage of time seems to favour the Russians

The former BBC correspondent shrewdly puts Kenya’s history in the context of the wider wave of decolonisation sweeping the world

Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni; I Seek a Kind Person by Julian Borger; Lovers in Auschwitz by Karen Blankfeld; and One Life by Barbara Winton

More casual readers will find Going Infinite a bit of a slog because it goes into the weeds of the world of cryptocurrencies and presumes prior familiarity with it on the part of the reader

A fervent supporter of the EU, Garton Ash is still critical of its missteps, and while he has a clear affection for Europe, he is not misty-eyed about it

An important testimony to one of the greatest humanitarian outrages of our time

A ‘man of faith’ and that faith is the chinese Communist Party

How trade expansion into Central Asia has built ‘China’s Inadvertent Empire’

Book review: Kishore Mahbubani sets out to chart China’s upcoming challenge to the US

Review: The book has an avowed mission but it’s not clear what audience it is aimed at

Review: A grim catalogue of social exclusion edited by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder

Richard Chambers’ book is fact-paced and less than flattering to government

Book review: Poetic memoir of Chinese artist-turned-activist who remains only partially understood