Sayaka Murata’s dystopic portrait of a convenience store clerk who, unable to be normal, unable to conform to society’s expectations of her, chooses to do what makes her happy – but finds it’s still not enough.

Colin Thubron’s eighth novel, and his first in fourteen years, tells the story of a burning house and the haunting, intertwined stories of its seven occupants.

As visitor numbers soar and tourist developments spring up around what seems like the entire coast of the Mediterranean, in the former Yugoslavia visitor numbers – and the benefits they bring – are not evenly distributed.

A country famed for its largesse, strict laws, and shallow aesthetics; does reality match the stereotype, or is there more than meets the eye?

In trying to understand the 2012 political crisis in Wisconsin, a political scientist stumbles on the roots of the division that would culminate in Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

Nik Cohn’s feverish tour through Britain’s rebellious, salacious, and just-plain-odd underbelly skewers the hypocrisy of the flinching middle classes.

Peter Pomerantsev explores the surreal, shapeshifting nature of culture in post-Soviet Russia, and how Putin’s Kremlin has mastered the art of manipulation in its quest to retain power at all costs.

Yuval Noah Harari charts the development of Homo sapiens: our emergence alongside other species of human; the unique attributes we developed that led to our those other species’ extinction; and what the future might look like, with or without us in it.

A bustling wholesale market in the centre of Seoul, where everything from apples to dried fish can be found in quantities large enough to feed a city of 26 million.

Raw fish, mountain views, and plenty of snow in a region of South Korea that was formerly part of the North.

Gordon Burn’s 2003 elegy for the industrial north: forgotten glories, forever-changed landscapes, and an overwhelming sense of loss – told through the story of a washed-up club comic and a former boxer.

Discovering Sweden’s capital via a walk through three of its most central districts – Norrmalm, Gamla stan, and Södermalm – each with a distinct character and a distinct role in the history of the city.