Cocoa Butter and Dreams. A Collection of Poems, Paintings and Ponderings on (my) Blackness is the first book in English by Belgian author, columnist and theatre-maker Dalilla Hermans. This layered art book combines nearly ten years of poems, letters and essays — some originally written for the stage, many never published before. Hermans wrote them all in English, the language she instinctively turned to when giving shape to Blackness within a European context. The collection also features t...

The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. ‘The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience’ Guardian

In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years, Anne describes not only the daily frustrations of living in such close quarters, but also her thoughts, feelings and longings as she grows up.

Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes.

Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.

A powerful call to confront the reasons why global politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic.

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso