Reportage & Collected Journalism

`I must find my own complicated junkie to have violent sex with. In 1994, nothing seemed like a better idea, save being able to write about it late...

Take a trip down memory lane with the memoir from national TV treasure John Craven, as he recounts both the highs and lows of one of the longest en...

For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio''''s flagship programmes. It takes listeners to parts of...

From a certain perspective, the biggest political story of 2016 was how the candidate who bought three-quarters of the political ads lost to the on...

Most famous for his classic work The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn is widely regarded as one of the greatest sportswriters of our time. The Roger Kahn...

At the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens wrote a series of sketches...

Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger gu...

In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of dem...

AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies ...

Foreword by Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize for Economics, 1998) Afterword by Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize, 2014)In 2005, Nick Danziger began to c...

Its 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writers block. It has been ...

'A charming collection of stories that reminds you life could be so much worse' - Sunday Times, Best Stocking Fillers of 2018The ultimate toilet bo...

Paid critics are an endangered species, and good criticism is a dying art. Editors are culling many, and frequently all, of their best critics. In ...

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.The concept o...

Any of the photographs are as familiar as they are iconic: Nelson Mandela gazing through the bars of his prison cell on Robben Island; a young Miri...

African Muckraking is the first collection of investigative and campaigning journalism written by Africans about Africa. The editors delved into th...

''''Under the latest iteration of the American Dream, if you aren''''t a billionaire yet, you haven''''t tried hard enough.'''' At the height of...

_______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic ...

The biggest and most comprehensive volume on Steve McCurry published to date and the final word on forty years of McCurrys incredible work. Written...

What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the true spirit of a nation? In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in a...

Before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir was one of Lebanon's foremost public intellectuals. In Being Arab, a thought-provoking assessment of...