Journalism

If the streets and buildings of central London could talk, what stories would they tell? Quirky and intriguing stories from history revealed.

This book contains all you need to know to work as a freelance journalist.

*Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST.

George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst ...

The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan.

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons

From an experienced business journalist, the story of how women have fought for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have keep them from equality

Fourteen months of Hornby's warm, incisive, and hilarious chronicles of the books he buys and the books he reads.In this latest collection of essays following 'The Polysyllabic Spree,' critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, ...

A hilarious and true account of one man's struggle with the monthly tide of the books he's bought and the books he's been meaning to read.

An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the national’s capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important and self-promoting world of the Beltway.

Barbara ...

A passionate argument for press freedom based on five principles that ensure today's media works honestly in the open for society at large.

This journal of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv.

A collection of the very best recent journalism of A. A. Gill, 'by miles, the most brilliant journalist of our age' (Lynn Barber).

Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, a member of the clan that produced Daniel Francois Malan, one of the master builders of apartheid, and General Magnus Malan, South Africa's Minister of Defence. Eight years later, he returned home to face his country, his tribe and his conscience, and to write My Traitor's Heart.

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light

ReWild is about learning how to observe, connect and discover nature for yourself. This book will show you how to reconnect with your inner beast by immersing yourself in a world where the wild things are.

A brilliant collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed young writers in the US

Full of extracts and illustrations from the original issues, this is the definitive history of one of the world's great children's papers from 1879 to 1966, as written by its final editor.

Nominated for the 2017 Hillman Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, ...

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more