Books

Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk's journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet - but is Musk a genius or a jerk? 

Filled with fascinating and challenging perceptions, The New Leviathans is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly. As a species we always seem to be struggling to face the reality of base and delusive human instincts. Might a more self-aware, realistic and disabused ethics help us all?

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland, Sinn Fein is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. 

SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 – Non-Fiction Book of the Year

What is Hagitude? It means being at ease with the unique power women embody in the second half of their life.

Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.

At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams about the sun-warmed bodies of ancient Greece.

From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. . .

Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. 

Beijing Rules exposes the armoury of strategies with which China has exploited Western weakness to position itself as leader in the game of nations. A must read for all involved in contemporary global activity, be it in business, social work, or politics

First published ten years ago, Our Final Invention predicted much of the artificial 'intelligence explosion' that is now ripping through our culture, and was named by Elon Musk as one of five books everyone should read about the future.  Now updated with an urgent new preface