Society & Essays

Hannah Ritchie Paperback We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children. ...

Rosamund Young Hardback 272 pages We talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave in the same way. That has not been my experience. Some are affectionate, others pro...

Hardback Paul Caruana Galizia When Paul Caruana Galizia was at work in London, his eldest brother called to say their mother Daphne had just been assassinated. That day, he returned to their nati...

Carmen Maria Machado & J Robert Lennon 256 pages Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the worl...

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 ...

Nick Dearden Hardback 336 pages Big Pharma Puts Profits Over People. In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Ph...

Anthony Bourdain Paperback 384 pages After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all. From his...

Sarah Bartlett Hardback 272 pages This enchanting little book is for the 'occult curious'. For anyone interested in crystals - because they are pretty or just might calm the spirit. Discover not...

Rebecca Solnit Paperback / softback 144 pages A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Reb...

Mark O'Connell Paperback 287 pages...

Eric Williams Paperback 304 pages Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism ...

Steven Simon Hardback...

Yascha Mounk Paperback 368 pages One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies. It'...

Tom Phillips Paperback 384 pages From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that ...

John Green Paperback 336 pages A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green Th...

Sally Hayden Paperback 512 pages The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history. In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a...

Annie Ernaux Paperback 232 pages Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impres...

Suzanne Wrack Paperback 256 pages This is the inspirational, agenda-changing story of women's football around the world. A Woman's Game explores the history of women's football from the Vic...

Paperback 352 pages Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three boxes of ripening apricots, fruit from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory lo...

PaperbackChimamanda Ngozi Adichie A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the sa...