Hasan Suroor (Editor) Where is India headed under Prime Minister Narendra Modi? What are the contours of the 'new' India he has promised to build? Is his promise of 'development'...

Ece Temelkuran An urgent and unsettling account of Turkey’s descent into tyranny, as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most gifted writers.Starting with the basic question "what is this...

Ezekiel Boone In the thrilling, nerve-wracking finale of Ezekiel Boone’s “hair-raising” ( Parade ) Hatching series, the United States goes to war against the queen spiders that threaten to overtake...

David Sedaris A guy walks into a bar...From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy...

John Keegan The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally...

Eric Ambler Syria, 1970. Michael Howell has kept his family’s Middle Eastern business enterprises going through a decade of takeovers, war, and revolution, thanks in part to his office manager,...

Christopher Silas Neal Decade after decade, Yiddish proverbs continue to capture the humor, warmth, and traditions of Jewish life. Now, the beloved Yiddish Wisdom (more than 100,000 copies sold) has...

Anthony McCarten From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...

Keggie Carew Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits...

Carlo Alberto Brioschi From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world. In A Short History ,...

Christopher Hill In the plays and popular folklore of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are many expressions of liberty against the law. Taking this literary theme as his starting point,...

Kajsa Norman Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When...