The Rest of The World

Synopsis Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award and the Spirit of Scotland Award. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award...

Synopsis Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific...

Synopsis So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all life, all religion, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the...

Synopsis 'It is late October, and the temperature is already -40c . . . my thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weigh...

Synopsis Subtitled : Blunderings through India & South-East Asia. A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong...

Synopsis Subtitled : A History of Israel & The Occupied Territories. In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel capt...

Synopsis International Bestseller. The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study...

Synopsis This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the presen...

Synopsis Longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerising book that explores how ...

Synopsis India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is a book written by Shashi Tharoor that expresses the importance that India enjoys in t...

Synopsis Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband's work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990's, she re...

Synopsis This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tibet. Over the course of three years, journalist ...