The long and fascinating history of Japan's modern capital spans from the first forest clearances on the vast Kanto plain, through the wars and intrigues of the samurai era, and up to the preparations for the 2020 Olympics.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is known as the author of some of the most important Russian novels of the 19th Century, such as "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot" and "The Brothers Karamazov".

The interlocking themes of Establishment and Meritocracy are a crucial part of the intellectual compost that made Hennessy's generation of postwar Britons. The Establishment and the concept of a growing and eventually self-propelling meritocracy were always at odds, and the policies that brought it about dramatically altered British society.

Franz Kafka died almost unacknowledged but he is now recognised as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and the creator of some of modern literature's most unsettling and memorable images. This biography shows that this world was very much Kafka's own: his personal life was as complicated and troubled as anything in his books.

Hennessy surveys the constitutional building site opened up for the whole of the UK by the Scottish referendum, offering personal impressions of the time when the 300-year-old Act of Union was called into question and when he, as the UK's foremost expert on our unwritten constitution, became an important voice in what may happen next.

Both fascinating and extremely revealing, this is an intimate account of power and the building at its core. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of British politics.

Beautifully illustrated with coloured maps and charts, Phantom Islands shows the cunning of imposters and frauds, the earnestness of explorers searching for knowledge, and the pleasure that can be found in our willingness to deceive and to be deceived.