Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was marked by hardship and resilience. Raised in a working-class Southern family, she moved constantly due to her father’s jobs,...View more

'A powerful, poignant tale of dieting and despair.' The Times 'A moving, brutally honest memoir about what it feels like to be fat-shamed.' Mail on Sunday _______________ At sixty-four, Jenni...View more

Mohandas Gandhi, the most iconic figure of Indian nationalism, remains an inspiration for anti-capitalists and peace activists globally. Seventy years after his death, however, his...View more

A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race and belief Economist Glenn C....View more

George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist...View more

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City...View more

Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring true story of Mala...View more

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who...View more

An acclaimed historian offers a novel look at Mussolini whose importance, charisma and achievements, according to Hoyt, have been overshadowed by his flagrant personality and...View more

For Nick Flynn, that game we all play—the who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-of-your-life game—has been answered. The Reenactments is the story of adapting Flynn's memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, into...View more

In the UK, ‘mixed’ is the fastest growing census category and yet mixed race people find themselves outside of the broader conversation about race and...View more

On June 14, 1941, more than fifteen thousand Latvians—about 1 percent of Latvia’s population—were deported in a twenty-four-hour period to Siberia as “enemies of the...View more