Explores the mismatch between how people experience the world and the increasing day-to-day pressures they face financially, and the model used by economic elites and politicians used to explain and justify it.

An eloquent and thought-provoking book on racism and prejudice by the Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes. John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his family in 1975. Six years later he was a professional footballer, distinguishing himself for Watford, Liverpool and England, and in the process becoming this country's most prominent black player. Barnes is now an articulate and captivating...

From the international bestselling author of }World On Fire{ and }Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother{, this is an insightful and provocative title that looks at the tension between our tribal instincts and our democratic political ideals.

In the past, the most common family structure was the 'nuclear family': a married mother and father and their children. Today, family groups are more flexible. This book looks at the changing shape of the family, at different methods and styles of parenting, and at issues for working parents.

Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for 'talkin' like a poof' after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who selfishly pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of the people who shuffle about Hucknall like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave. It's a new millennium, Madonna's 'Music'...

A powerful account of three refugees who must flee the war in South Sudan and find each other in the largest refugee camp in the world.

While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather...

Reuben was living in a home providing care for adults with learning disabilities. For over a year he had been non-verbal, unable to express his thoughts and feelings except on paper with felt-tip pens. 'Brother do you love me' is a dazzling story of hope, resilience and repair for our troubled times. It explores how far we're capable of going for those we love, and asks how, individually and collectively, we can all take better care of each other....

Islam is the fastest growing faith community in Britain. Domes and minarets are redefining the skylines of our towns and cities as mosques become an increasingly prominent feature. Yet while Britain has prided itself on being a global home of cosmopolitanism and modern civilisation, its deep-rooted relationship with Islam - unique in history - is complex, threatened by rising hostility and hatred, intolerance and ignorance. There is much media debate...

This is a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. From its earliest incarnations 7000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific, and artistic revolutions. It is these world-changing, epoch-defining...