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By Benjamin Kwakye

By Mashingaidze Gomo

By Véronique Tadjo translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid

By Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson

By Alastair Crooke

By William Parry

By Mark Curtis

By Houshang Asadi

By Petros Markaris

By Stephen Chan

By Tomoyuki Hoshino

Thanks to the combination of specialization and production chains that span the globe, we consumers rarely get to see the whole picture. This book joins the dots, showing the impacts of resource extraction on local communities and the environment, making the link between games consoles, civil war, rape and rainforest destruction.

By Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Lierre Keith has written a passionately argued, highly personal, and deeply informative book about the destructive and unsustainable nature of modern day agriculture – but disguised it as an argument against vegetarianism.

Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. By Wade Davis.

Anyone who offers a diagnosis of the current economic malaise and prescribes a cure, but has not read this book, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Part memoir, part social commentary, part philosophical inquiry, US writer Nick Flynn’s book builds on his earlier autobiography, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

Ninni Holmqvist's début novel is a dystopia in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Marge Piercy.

This book provides some amusing and insightful analysis of the way in which knee-jerk fundamentalism mixes with the celebrity sell to provide a personal narrative on which the hopes of the Republican Right have come to reside.

How not to run an economy