John Cowper Powys 
One Hundred Best Books 
With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder …

An introduction to all aspects of newspaper journalism and the journalist’s world. The book examines in detail not only day-to-day practice but also the role of the editor and the reading public, and …

Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato”s opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the …

At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we …

***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of …

The Suspecting Glance (first published in 1972) collects Conor Cruise O'Brien's four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures as delivered at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in November 1969. The …

This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong’s writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, …