Non-fiction
The Force of the Spirit
Marie de Hennezel
Renowned psychologist Marie de Hennezel shares her story of an extraordinary friendship that grew out of a mutual questioning of spirituality, life, death, and the hereafter.
A Curiosity of Doubts
Tea Uglow
While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, we grow because we doubt. Humans have not spent millennia traversing oceans and experimenting with explosives because of confidence i…
How To Write Like Tolstoy
Richard Cohen
A thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King. Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on an engrossing journey…
The Spaces in Between
Caroline Jones
By the time she was 18, Caroline Jones had lived in five different African countries as well as Pakistan. Her father’s work with the UN World Food Program saw the family following him to countries in…
It Takes a School
Jonathan Starr
It Takes a School is the unlikely story of an American hedge fund manager who set out to build a school in war-torn Somaliland, an unrecognized breakaway region in Somalia, the world’s #1 failed state…
The Passion of Mademoiselle S.
Edited and introduced by Jean-Yves Berthault
A historic personal testament to a love affair, and to a time when the world was poised on the cusp of seismic change.A collection of long lost love letters from 1928 to 1930, recently discovered in a…
In the Kingdom of Hope
Elise Boghossian
“In the operating room, I shudder when I hear the sound of a saw. Amin is ten years old, he lost his legs when he was hit by a tank in Syria. I can’t breathe, I can’t swallow my bitter saliva, it tast…
The Isis Hostage
Puk Damsgård
The ISIS Hostage is the dramatic story of Danish freelance photographer Daniel Rye and his thirteen months being held captive in Syria by ISIS, as told by award-winning journalist Puk Damsgård. This r…
Resisters
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov’s new work presents a range of the most important resistance figures of our era. Although born into different regions and social classes, these historical figures all renounced a stabl…
How the French Won Waterloo
Stephen Clarke
Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French are still in denial. If Napoleon lost on 18 June 1815 (and that’s a big ‘if”), then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the canno…