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A judgment to remember 'Having escaped the lions' den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat.' Justice Michael Lee with an introduction by Chanel Contos On...

From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...

An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* 'One of the most electrifying writers...

A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie,...

An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...

Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated...

The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...

A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school...

Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and wasted by the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile....

The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them Well-behaved women don't make history- difficult women do. 'This is the...

The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most...

A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, one of the most prominent, outspoken lawyers in the UK, and...

A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in the twentieth century, by 'the leading historian of Soviet crimes' (Sunday Times) In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of...

A short, powerful memoir from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a...

An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...

A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...

A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of...

Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States To compose his stunning documentary...

Introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb 'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is...

Women so empowered are dangerous Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of...

With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...

Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age-Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt-is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country's largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which...

Today's renewed interest in our basic rights has become part of popular culture and breaking news. From the Mexican border to the #MeToo movement, these images made in fabric are...

"Dr Mukwege, you are a warrior for peace" - Oprah Winfrey Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist, Dr Mukwege has dedicated his life to caring for victims of...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded.Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in...

From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy, Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYA "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban...

From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the ""Donglin Faction"" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged...

A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him 'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your...

A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him 'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your...

International human rights law is sometimes criticized as an infringement of constitutional democracy. Against this view, Jamie Mayerfeld argues that international human rights law provides a necessary extension of checks...

Mashable's 20 Books from 2020 That Make Great GiftsIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his...

In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...

In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...

On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the 'Butcher of Prague' and architect of the 'Final solution', died from wounds...

American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white...

'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES 'The expert on America's right-wing fringe ... With kidnappings, murders,...

'A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers' William Boyd'Surefooted and emotionally generous ... A serious achievement' Guardian'Masterful' Telegraph 'A revelation' SpectatorThe...

With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingA beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther...

The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not...

The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism...

Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...

Simon Schama in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop...

The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism...

Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later...

CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S and FINANCIAL TIMES' BOOKS OF 2020'In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings to life the complex movement for queer civil rights and the many...

"Dr Mukwege, you are a warrior for peace" - Oprah Winfrey Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist, Dr Mukwege has dedicated his life to caring for victims of...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress...