Marcus Aurelius 
Meditations 

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius – Matthew Parris, The Spectator An absolutely extraordinary book … a huge collage and anthology of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper reports, trial docu …

”On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing ach …

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America – to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV” …

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study. As part of President Bush s war on terror , the invasion was the most controversial British foreign policy …

Pedagogy in Process presents a first-hand account of the most comprehensive attempt yet to put into practice Paulo Freire”s theory of education within a real societal setting. When Guinea Bissau on …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA”S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest cou …

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works – books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation – The Fun Stuff confirms Wood’s pre-eminence, no …