Society and culture

The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground Control London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK.

In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa.

People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. This living visual history vividly documents ordinary lives alongside luminaries and landmark moments.

OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you `fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems.

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of his first 35 years.

In this personal and provocative investigation, Afua Hirsch explores a very British crisis of identity.

Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings

Here are sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking SFF writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu.