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Candid on short-staffing and underfunding, ministerial memoir Zero omits the healthcare that happens in the community.

By Gavin Francis

A new book by Bill Browder reveals the bravery of a young lawyer who uncovered a £185m state-sponsored tax fraud.

By Katie Stallard

Authoritarians and autocrats continue to flourish despite a long parade of inadequacy. Can liberal democracy strike back?

By Jeremy Cliffe

New works by the journalists Tina Brown and Robert Hardman question whether the monarchy can survive without radical reform.

By Richard J Evans

Simon Kuper’s book Chums tells the story of how one university taught the core of today’s Brexit government how to…

By Richard Beard

Danny Orbach’s intriguing book Fugitives details how former Third Reich officers sold their services to the West – and turned…

By William Boyd

Chinese fiction is booming, but authors cannot escape the regime’s tightening grip.

By Katie Stallard

Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World shows how the UK’s enthusiasm for deregulation has made it a global haven for…

By Will Dunn

Invisible Child follows Dasani Coates and her family in New York as they battle a racist system that is rigged…

By Gary Younge

From his Dulwich days to the EU referendum, the man who made Brexit has always been a lone provocateur.

By Janice Turner

From politics and science to history and pop, the essential books for the year ahead.

By Tom Gatti

The year's essential reading in 20 titles.

By New Statesman

How Paul Kagame’s Rwandan regime wooed the global elite.

By Martin Fletcher

How Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…

By John Gray