Society and culture

France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. This book explores the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in, through an exploration of recent moral panics.

The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole - now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.

Racism is part of how we have built society part of how political, social and economic relationships are maintained.

A single word - Auschwitz - is often used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust.

WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF T

Five years after his tragic death, Travyon Martin’s name is still evoked every day. This book explores how one black child’s death on a dark, rainy street in a small Florida town became the match that lit a civil rights crusade.

The twentieth century was an age of revolutions. As the pace of social and economic change quickened and the savagery of technological warfare destabilized societies, intolerable pressures were created which exploded into violent political movements.

Following the success of her debut book, Edge of Wonder, author Victoria Erickson once again captures the heart's attention in this enlivening collection of poetry and musing.