Social groups, communities and identities

_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist.

Why do: Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well?

Midlife is a turning point.

A feminist campaigner is sent death threats online at a rate of over fifty-per-hour.

In this inspirational and practical guide to country life, passionate and hugely knowledgeable countryman Alan Titchmarsh explores the heritage of rural Britain, its landscapes and wildlife, its traditions, customs and crafts.

One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times The QuietusLong-listed for the Polari First Book PrizeIn 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men.

The unforgettable collection of autobiographical essays from Jill Soloway, the creator and director of Transparent and Emmy-nominated writer for Six Feet Under.

A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life lived and raw talent shared.

Neil collects bricks, Kevin is a roundabout enthusiast, John runs the Apostrophe Protection Society and Keith s actual job is watching paint dry.

Back pain is very hard (often impossible) to diagnose and to specify, hence heavy painkillers are thrown at people.

'Lying in the prison of my bed, his dark silhouette closes in, a pillow in his hands.

This is a one-of-a-kind book, which will motivate generations of girls and women for years to come, The Female Lead is a collection of portraits - in their own words - of over 50 inspirational women who changed the world around them.

Voted the UK s Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger s and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist!

We are not OK.

The Sunday Times bestsellerOver her ten years of documentary film making, Stacey Dooley has covered a wide variety of topics, from sex trafficking in Cambodia to Yazidi women fighting back in Syria.

'You see, if only they didn t speak English in America, then we d treat it as a foreign country and probably understand it a lot better the sanest man in America Bill Bryson Jon Sopel nails it Emily Maitlis**With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power**As the BBC s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately.

'Zimbardo has put his finger on a great challenge of the modern era' - The Sunday TimesMasculinity is in meltdown.

In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past.

Can women be geniuses?

'Stunning.

'Excellent' Robert Webb, author of How Not To Be A Boy'A valuable book for parents' Barbara Ellen, ObserverWhy are boys three times more likely than girls to be suspended from school?

After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed the focus of the last book: Dr Meena - the woman who helps abused women to heal and fight for their rights, and Fatima, the mother of twin daughters who, once abused and abandoned by her family, now works for the Princess in one of the royal palaces.

[This] should be required reading for anyone who says feminism s work is done.

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.

Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal.

Discover Wollstonecraft s classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.

The great leader of the women s suffrage movement tells the story of her struggles in her own words.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOREvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma how to look.

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.

What would happen if society was run by women?

At 9am on 13 April 1933 deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone call summoning him to the newly established concentration camp of Dachau, where four prisoners had been shot.

Every time someone changes sex, there's one less freak in the worldMeet the Divots.

Richard Hoggart's book, The Uses of Literary, established his reputation as a uniquely sensitive and observant chronicler of English working-class life.

Have you ever watched a man angling in the rain, building a shelter when there s a bed waiting for him at home or peeing as high as he can up a wall?

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America discover his Narrative.

A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago.

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers.

One woman s investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love.

Peter France looks at the various stages of his own spiritual odyssey and talks intimately of his long search for knowledge and enlightenment.

When Jean Sasson s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller.

Featured on the Podcast You Don't Know Me hosted by Chloe Combi - an exploration into the lives of global Gen Z'An important and timely book.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families.

Men are so last century.

Every parent's dream - proper, nutritious recipes for the whole family that will get even the fussiest kids eating up.

Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and finally capturing Hitler s Eagle s Nest.

At the vulnerable age of 12, Lara McDonnell was picked out by a gang of men who befriended her, showered her with attention and gained her trust.

Stellen wir uns unsere Welt einmal als Dorf mit 100 Menschen vor.

The book, "e;Wet under the Rainbow"e; by Akariza Laurette Annely, explores the profound impact of the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda on the younger generation.