Wild Fictions is a collection of essays written over the past 25 years or so and published in various journals and periodicals.

The essays can be clubbed under the broad headings of writings on literature and language, climate change and environment, human lives, travel and discoveries, and opinions and conversations. They focus on the abiding concerns that are reflected in Ghosh's works of fiction and non-fiction: colonization, colonialism and its effects; the complex and delicate ...

As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE

'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES

'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' SUNDAY TIMES

'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN

*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*

This is a book about the coming of age of four women b...

The Extinction of Experience explores the way a broad range of technologies, from the microwave to the sophisticated computer simulator, now influence our everyday choices—what we eat, how we educate our children, how we get to and from work, and how we spend our leisure time.

The quirky and profound international bestseller - at once a life-affirming memoir on how to live well in a world governed by chaos, and a darkly astonishing scientific biography

A groundbreaking history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of Ten Myths About Israel

Publishing on the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, from acclaimed graphic novelist Kate Evans, author of Red Rosa.

The illuminating memoir of Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter and author Neil Jordan.

De Poolse Seweryna Szmaglewska bracht drie lange jaren door als politieke gevangene in het vrouwenkamp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Vrijwel onmiddellijk nadat het kamp in januari 1945 werd bevrijd, begon ze haar herinneringen te noteren. Haar relaas, De vrouwen van Birkenau, zou later een belangrijke getuigenis worden tijdens het Neurenbergproces. In een bijzonder verhalend perspectief, namelijk zonder de ik-vorm te gebruiken, legt ze minutieus de dagelijkse gang van zaken in het kamp vast en beschrij...