Bestsellers

A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery. Introducing Perveen Mistry, a courageous young lawyer-turned-sleuth in a stunning murder mystery. Armed with a...

From award-winning writer and theorist Tao Leigh Goffe, an urgent investigation into the intertwined history of colonialism and the climate crisis - and the lessons we can learn to fight...

Presents a significant new way of looking at classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan...

The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil “Part theory, part manifesto, part history. . . . [Where We Stand] has the makings of...

Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country,...

An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization How did disenchantment lead to climate change?  The States of the Earth argues that European empires have become secular as they were entering the...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government...

The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to AmalgamationWhat do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria.Formation: From Jihad to...

The powerful conclusion to iconic author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses — the series that taught a generation to think and act differently.Cross & Nought . . .Years have...

History, Conscience and Britain's EmpireAn award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British EmpireFor generations, British thinkers told the history of an...

The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous intrigues and suspicious deaths.India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri Mountains...

When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of Black power and HXVX- the Curse of Africa. Sure...

Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 AmericaAmericans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar...

The Racial History of an Idea The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom. The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and...

1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party...

An evocative novel set in 1930s Indochine about an American who journeys there in the name of family fortune, the glamorous world she finds herself in — and the truth...

At the Bottom of the Riveris Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl. Collecting pieces written for...