Non-fiction
Literature in Peril
Tzvetan Todorov
In his new bestselling essay, the philosopher and literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov addresses the worrying state of contemporary literature. Todorov argues that the crux of this problem lies in an app…
Talk to the Snail
Stephen Clarke
Have you ever walked into a half-empty restaurant in France only to be told that it’s ‘complet’? Attempted to say ‘merci beaucoup’ and accidentally complimented someone on their cute backside? Been ta…
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The daughter of a political opponent of the Somali dictatorship, Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up surrounded by her family in exile. Her traditional upbringing continued from Somalia to Saudi Arabia and then t…
Stolen Voices
Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger
In 1992 Zlata Filipovic found herself caught in the siege of Sarajevo. The diary that she had begun as a carefree twelve year old became a war diary – a record of the devastation that was unfolding ar…
The Road of Lost Innocence
Somaly Mam
Somaly Mam’s life story is an unforgettable and inspiring story of triumph over unthinkable adversity. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experienc…
A Life Less Ordinary
Baby Halder
Written on a notepad in moments snatched between her domestic duties, Baby Halder’s memoir recounts the hardships and struggles of her life as a poor woman in India; her mother walked out when she was…
The Courage to Leave
Diaryatou Bah
Diaryatou was born in 1985 in Guinea. One of 32 children (her father had four wives), at the age of two she was sent to live with her grandparents in a little village “on the edge of the world,” where…
The Apostles of Beauty
Tzvetan Todorov
Although they may sound strange today, Dostoevsky’s famous words were once taken at face value. In the wake of 19th century Romanticism, several generations of writers did believe that through their l…
In the Name of Honour
Mukhtar Mai
For the first time, Mukhtar Mai recounts her ordeal in this moving memoir. A story of extreme suffering and humiliation, it is also one of immense courage and faith. Mukhtar Mai is thirty five years o…
In Defence of the Enlightenment
Tzvetan Todorov
Two and a half centuries ago, a generation of men grew up with the exhilarating belief that the world could be explored and explained with man-created tools and adventurous minds over which no God had…