Birds have inspired people since the dawn of time. They are the notes behind Mozart’s genius, the colours behind Audubon’s art and ballet’s swansong. In The Birds They Sang, Stanisław Łubieński sheds light on some of history’s most meaningful bird […]
The Westbourne Press
Launched in 2012, The Westbourne Press publishes challenging and thought-provoking non-fiction in a wide spectrum of genres: history, current affairs, sexual politics, memoir, popular science, art, photography and humour. Forthcoming titles include Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, Joumana Haddad’s Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions and Joan Smith’s The Public Woman.
Smashing It
Edited by Sabrina Mahfouz
Working-class artists are hugely under-represented in the arts industries, facing extra challenges from unpaid work to prejudice, though they make up a third of the British population. How can we break this cycle of inequality? Smashing It celebrates […]
Wally Funk’s Race for Space
Sue Nelson
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Wally Funk’s character leaps off the page … fantastic and so inspirational.’ Naga Munchetty, BBC Breakfast THE BIOGRAPHY OF WALLY FUNK AS SEEN IN THE ACCLAIMED MAJOR NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY MERCURY 13 […]
Zealot
Reza Aslan
Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic figures by examining Jesus within the context of the times in which he lived: the age of zealotry, an era […]
Asian Britain
Susheila Nasta
with Florian Stadtler
South Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures […]
Meet Me in Gaza
Louisa B. Waugh
Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’? From beautiful beaches to sealed borders, from a secret New Year’s Eve party to a […]