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.
A fictionalized account of the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign.
Hilary Synnott’s book is a useful introduction to Pakistan’s past, present and possible future.
Vancouver-based journalist Terry Gould tells the stories of six journalists who paid with their lives for refusing to surrender their conviction that journalism is meant to be about ‘telling the truth’.
Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe
Szperling's short, punchy novel paints a vivid pen-portrait of the savage and amoral nature of this stratum of Argentinean society.
Nominally a thriller, Thursday Night Widows is less concerned with the 'whodunnit' aspects of plotting than with a psychological dissection of a social class obsessed with bickering and petty jealousies as the pillars of their world dissolve.
It takes a singular talent to make a book of 1,000 pages that is as hard to put down as it is to pick up. Despite its size, 2666 retains the agility of a thriller.
A graphic adaptation of the book by Studs Terkel by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle.
A grim but compelling reading – a fitting testament to all the women killed who had sex outside marriage.
An excellent first novel, teeming with memorable characters and dealing with momentous events; the sort of old-fashioned yarn in which the patient reader can become immersed.
A multi-layered tribute to the human spirit – beaten but not broken, and laughing drunkenly in the face of adversity.