Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa
Ekow Eshun
Hamish Hamilton
‘Where are you from?’ ‘No, where are you really from?’ These questions, which he has been asked since boyhood, drive Ekow Eshun to travel through Ghana in search of his roots, and
Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War Reporting
David Loyn
Michael Joseph; reissued by Summersdale
Rory Peck, Peter Jouvenal, Vaughan Smith, and Nicholas Della Casa were the founder members of an exclusive and dangerous club: the Frontline TV News Agency. Between them, this colourful collection of adventurers
I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation
Michela Wrong
Harper Perennial
One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa’s best espresso and worst
Moses, Citizen and Me
Delia Jarrett-Macauley
Granta
When Julia flies in to war-scarred Sierra Leone from London, she is apprehensive about seeing her uncle Moses for the first time in twenty years. But nothing could have prepared her for
The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt
Richard Webster
Orwell Press
In 1991 journalists on broadsheet newspapers began to publish stories claiming that Bryn Estyn, a home for adolescent boys on the outskirts of Wrexham, lay at the centre of a network of
Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew
Bernard Hare
Sceptre
You’re twelve years old. Your mother’s a junkie and your father might as well be dead. You can’t read or write, and you don’t go to school. An average day means sitting