A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa
A. T. Williams
Jonathan Cape
On 15 September 2003 Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was killed by British Army troops in Iraq. He had been arrested the previous day in Basra and was taken to a military
Bad Pharma
Ben Goldacre
4th Estate
WARNING: THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY HAS SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS. These include: flawed clinical trials followed by the suppression of unfavourable results, poor regulation, diseases invented purely for profit, swollen marketing budgets, doctors and
Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right
Daniel Trilling
Verso Books
The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum
Burying the Typewriter
Carmen Bugan
Picador
One quiet day when her mother was away from home, Carmen Bugan’s father put on his best suit and drove into Bucharest to stage a one-man protest against Ceauşescu. He had been
El Narco
Ioan Grillo
Bloomsbury
The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs
From the Ruins of the Empire
Pankaj Mishra
Allen Lane
Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire
Injustice
Clive Stafford Smith
Harvill Secker
In 1986, Kris Maharaj, a British businessman living in Miami, was arrested for the brutal murder of two ex-business associates. His lawyer did not present a strong alibi; Kris was found guilty
Leaving Alexandria
Richard Holloway
Canongate
At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood by a religious order
Occupation Diaries
Raja Shehadeh
Profile Books
It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
Marie Colvin
HarperCollins
A fearless, passionate veteran reporter of conflicts from around the world, Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012, covering the uprising in Syria from the besieged city of Homs.
Plutocrats
Chrystia Freeland
Allen Lane
The rich really are different … There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider – and now the rich are getting wealthier at such
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Paul Preston
HarperCollins
The culmination of more than a decade of research, The Spanish Holocaust seeks to reflect the intense horrors visited upon Spain during its ferocious civil war, the consequences of which still reverberate