Collection: Adult Non Fiction

In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood and...

Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa ...

'Comfort' offers an array of poems to help you find solace for times of ill-health, loss and grief. It will help you to promote recovery, with verse to comfort you in times of great need, to counteract sorrow. Perfect for fortitude and steadfastness, for weathering the storm. Perfect for reading ...

Despite historic, seemingly insurmountable setbacks of four openings, Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson's musical Girl from the North Country became a critical Broadway hit. Hailed as an experience 'as close as mortals come to heaven on earth,' by The New York Times, the musical weaves two dozen song...

We Are Not Numbers (WANN) was founded to give a voice to the youth of Gaza. Since then, young Palestinians, mostly living in the besieged Gaza Strip, have used the platform to chronicle the human impact of occupation and blockade. In doing so, they have passionately fought to be recognised not as...

In ancient times, the vast area that stretches across what is now modern-day Iraq and Syria saw the rise and fall of epic civilizations who built the foundations of our world today. It was in this region, which we call Mesopotamia, that history was written down for the very first time. With start...

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country's literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. Th...

Pioneering neuropsychiatrist Dr Daniel Amen provides evidence that many problems formerly considered psychological, such as anxiety and depression, actually have a biological basis. In this text, Dr Amen offers a wealth of surprising - and effective - 'brain prescriptions' that can help heal your...

Is your toddler eating strange foods, refusing to sleep, throwing tantrums and addicted to their screen? You're not alone, and Nanny Amies is here to help. Laura Amies - the expert toddler tamer from the TV show Toddlers Behaving (Very) Badly - shares her essential toolkit of tried-and-tested tec...

Why do ordinary people support Putin? Why does Russia act so aggressively abroad? How fragile is the regime? In 'Russia Starts Here', Howard Amos paints a fascinating portrait of the lives of ordinary Russians, introducing us to a cast of colourful characters nestled on the fringes of North-Easte...