An Elegy for Easterly
Petina Gappah
Faber
A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at
Freedom for Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty
John Kampfner
Simon & Schuster
Why do so many people around the world appear willing to give up freedoms in return for security or prosperity? For the past 60 years it had been assumed that capitalism was
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy
Kenan Malik
Atlantic Books
On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the Rushdie fatwa, From Fatwa to Jihad tells, for the first time, the full story of this defining episode and explores its repercussions and
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower
Michela Wrong
Fourth Estate
A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.
Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake...
Andrea Gillies
Short Books
Can our personalities be taken away from us? Are memory and identity mutually dependent? What exactly is the soul?
Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples
Christopher de Bellaigue
Bloomsbury
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? In Rebel Land the acclaimed author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's