Category Archives: Travel Guides
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown.Now you can become part of the movement – and together, we can make history.It`s time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world as we know it.Now or
The Collected Schizophrenias
`Dazzling … in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces … mind-expanding` The New York Times Book ReviewEsmรฉ Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions
UPDATED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION`Magnificent … a major work by two of the world`s most perceptive and intelligent India-watchers writing today` William Dalrymple, New StatesmanFrom two of India`s leading economists, Jean Drรจze and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in
A Boy in the Water
**Winner of the William Hill 2018 Sports Book of the Year Award**A Sunday Times Book of the Year and Telegraph Best Book of 2018`Extraordinary` Clare BaldingThe poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking Channel swim became realityEltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
“An epoch-defining book” Matt Haig”If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this” David Sexton, Evening StandardIt is worse, much worse, than you think.The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn`t happening at all, and if your anxiety
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair itDeep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries.
Europe: A Natural History
`Vivid, thrilling, a delight … Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe`s flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near future … an exciting book, full of wonder` James McConnachie, Sunday TimesA place of exceptional
Reporter: A Memoir
“`Reporter` is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh`s warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over” John le CarreIn the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university – while
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe – Longlisted for the 2020 Jhalak Prize
Longlisted for the 2020 Jhalak Prize”A revelation” Owen Jones”`Afropean` seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe`s relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical” Afua HirschA Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019″Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European
Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity
In our brave new world of Big Tech, work is automated and money melts into air. What comes next as the global capitalist edifice crumbles? Slavoj Zizek shows how the answer is already stealing into sight, like a thief in broad daylight. What we must do is wake up and see it. “In a world
What Is Populism?
`An essential book` Washington PostFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is
Beguiled
When an injured Union soldier is found in the Virginia woods as the Civil War rages, he is brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies to recover. For the sheltered girls and their teachers, the arrival of the attractive John McBurney is a thrilling distraction from normal life. But before long,
Returning to Reims
“A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself” Hilary Mantel”There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims… Why, when I have
A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog
Discover the many wonders of the hedgehog: a funny, charming creature of the countryside.Carrying its secrets beneath patterned spinesand roaming our fields, parks and gardens, why is it that the hedgehog fascinates so many of us? In A Prickly Affair, Hugh Warwick – life member of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society – explores the quirky
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018*`As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read` Viv Groskop, ObserverOn 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
New York Times BestellerFor the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here – some well-known, some you may have never heard of – are economically viable, and communities throughout
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition
In 1850, China was the `sick man of Asia`. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the
A History of the Middle East: 5th Edition
The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition”The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world” Washington PostOver the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book follows the historic struggles of the region over
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don`t Know
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger`s motives?Through a series
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
“Remarkable… grips with the force of a thriller” Robert MacFarlaneAn astonishing expose of the aftermath of Chernobyl – and the plot to cover up the truthThe official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, `the worst nuclear disaster in history`, is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. Yet award-winning
