Society & Essays

Suzanne Joinson Paperback 304 pages Suzanne Joinson grew up in a 1980s council estate in Crewe, where her parents were followers of The Divine Light Mission cult. This clash of class and count...

Author: Annie Ernaux, Cover: Softback, Pages: 144...

Author: Asmaa Alghoul, Cover: Softback, Pages: 208...

Author: Jonathan Littell, Cover: Softback, Pages: 352...

Author: Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Cover: Softback, Pages: 441...

Author: Elias Canetti, Cover: Softback, Pages: 424...

Author: Bay Garnett, Cover: Softback, Pages: 240...

Marcel Dirsus Paperback Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weakn...

Phil Elwood Paperback The man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now pulling back the curtain: a bridge-burning, riotous confession by a top PR operative who exposes the secrets o...

Mark Bowden Paperback 320 pages Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighbourhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by 'The Wire.' Drug de...

Ray Kurzweil Paperback 672 pages In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the ...

Layal Liverpool Paperback Racism is a public health crisis - and we can do something about it. A ground-breaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine – leading to worse...

Softback 324 pages Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters. In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands – th...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...

Paul Oyer Paperback 216 pages An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sor...

Hannah Proctor Paperback 272 pages In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the fro...

Andrew Monaghan Paperback 224 pages This illuminating book explains how and why Russia’s relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of ‘great power competi...

Martin Wolf Paperback 496 pages From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democrac...

David Shrier Paperback 240 pages In Basic AI, leading futurist David L. Shrier delves deep into the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, delivering fascinating insights and explori...

Georgina Sturge Paperback 288 pages [An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data ... a penetrating analysis of why statistical literacy matters to our politics and our dail...

Stanley Tucci Paperback 320 pages From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen - the perfect accompaniment ...

George Makari Paperback / softback 368 pages, 40 b-w illus. An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia-and what it means for today's divided world Over the last few years, it ...

Paperback 111 pages Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalize...

Geoff Dyer Paperback 304 pages In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middl...