SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONShe Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation.
Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book of the Year'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.
The editors of O, The Oprah Magazine have combed through the publication's extensive archives to create O's Little Book of Love and Friendship, featuring the very best writing on those topics from fifteen years of O.
The next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.
'A book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed'ELIZABETH DAYOne night in October 2015, twenty-year-old Morgan Hehir went out with friends and never came home.
'Nobody writes better prose than Renata Adler' John Leonard, Harper's For decades Renata Adler - acclaimed author of Speedboat and Pitch Dark - has pursued a single urgent question: What is really going on here?
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash of Janet Malcolm' VogueFrom its opening journey into remote Alaska for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, IMPOSSIBLE OWLS leads us on a kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary reality.
*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X.
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR**Rough is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't talk about.
'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative expos of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revised and updated.
'Deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane'A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better' Jeanette WintersonAfter a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act.
New York Times Book Review Top 10 Books of the Year Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness The TimesThere are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which Strangers to Ourselves shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.
Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times)'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel Carr re has reinvented non-fiction writing.
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.
Whether we have children or not we all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively.
'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs TonightWINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book AwardIn the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.
'Brilliant' Mail on SundayTake a trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS and 'Axel F'; of outsiders, lost boys and dead poets; of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields and the Brat Pack; of three Porky's, two Coreys and one summer when everyone called her Baby .
In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson has covered sporting events all over the world, including cricket and tennis in Australia, golf in America, Formula One in Kuala Lumpur, boxing in Cairo, petanque in Gran Canaria, beach volleyball in Brazil, Olympics in Sydney, football in China, and rugby in South Africa.
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CYCLING IN FIVE VOLUMESVolume One of The Cycling Anthology, a collection of the best writing on cycling by some of the sport's leading writers.
Fascinating and timely Jeremy BowenHeld hostage for many years by terrorists in Lebanon, John McCarthy is all too familiar with the pain and injustice of being denied your home.
Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view that made his other books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to.
