Journalism

Living in the Shadow of AI A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our...

As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try...

Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed...

The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy From renowned journalist Rahul Bhatia, the truth about the 'world's largest democracy' through the eyes of its people This is a book of...

Racism, inequality, and the health of a nation From an award-winning writer at TheNew York Times Magazine comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities...

How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe—but it’s definitely not the last dance...

A searing indictment of the media's failures in reporting Indigenous affairs - and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way for equality and justice. From...

*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about...

A deeply personal, politically impassioned portrait of the historic protests taking place in Iran, by a female witness and participant who must remain strictly anonymous. With an introduction by Christina...

Anything you want to know about how Race has been treated on film and tv is in this book. Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen...

This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar...

A riveting insider account of how activists, politicians, educators and citizens are working to change minds, bridge divisions and save democracy from the bestselling author of Winners Take All It once...

A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023‘Fabulously entertaining’ Daily Telegraph‘Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.’s Catch Me If You Can’ Publishers WeeklyThe astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian...

FROM REPORTING TO REFLECTING, FIELD NOTES FOR THE SOUL In this collection of poignant and uplifting essays, seasoned international journalist Marga Ortigas shares what she's learned from over two decades...

A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979.Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020'What happened to...

Because you eatThere is no farmers and others. If you eat or wear clothes, the decisions you make influence farming.'Eaters will be the ultimate arbiter of where and how food...

An Alternative History of IdentityA slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century Black rights activist is ‘cancelled’ for denying...

Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern BritainHow does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form? What is it like to grow up as the...

Chinese Australian VoicesSouth Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns,...

Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-PopThere is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet...

Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & DeathWhat if we could have babies without bearing children, eat meat without killing animals, have a perfect sexual relationship without involving...

An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrativeLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist,...

Racism, death, and hard truths in a northern cityThe bestselling true-crime investigation by the author of All Our Relations.In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks...

Right after the election of 2016, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her...

What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of SexAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what...

Hidden Stories from Women of AfghanistanCompelling, enlightening, heart-breaking, Dear Zari is a collection of true stories from women in Afghanistan that is more urgent now than ever.Dear Zari gives voice...

Georges Salines lost his daughter Lola in the attack on the Bataclan Theatre in Paris on 13th November 2015. Azdyne Amimour lost his son. Both were aged 28.Lola was one...

An Ordinary KillingA masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nationKatra Sadatganj. A tiny village in...

A New World DisorderAs the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s...

Book Reviewing in Uncertain TimesAn inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they...

An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer TickThe highly-anticipated book from the UK's number one true crime podcast, RedHanded! What is it about killers, cults, and...

For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and 46 seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George...

Exploring the blurry frontier of fertility and its very human fallout.An astonishing real-life whodunnit and investigative exposé, Brave New Humans reveals the uncomfortable realities of assisted reproduction and its very...

The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our worldSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core...

A journalistic account of the abuse and enslavement of women and girls in AsiaA constant stream of impoverished women and girls have been, and are being, enslaved and abused in...

The number of women in media professions may have increased in recent years, but there is still a gender imbalance and lack of diversity in newsrooms, film sets, and so...

Netflix's Unbelievable meets Angie Thomas' On the Come Upin this bold story about fame, justice and freedom of speech.Seventeen-year-old Josie is living a young journalist's dream when she wins a...

A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap GoodsDiscover the truth behind the discounts.In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of...

A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a WarTranslated from the French by Lara VergnaudIn 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in...

Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of EverestChanging the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the...

Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who...

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better...

Life and Death in a Contested CityA fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out — from an electrifying new voice in narrative...

Dowries, Gender Violence and Family in AustraliaAn incisive investigation of domestic violence in South Asian communities, and the resilience of women in the face of adversityIn the early 2010s a...

One man's life and the struggle for racial justiceWritten by two award-winning reporters with unprecedented access, this is the only definitive biography of George Floyd.The murder of George Floyd sparked...

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong KongAn award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious...

A tale of a Hong Kong journalist's struggle to unravel the truth of a pro-democracy protester's suspicious death, amid the city's political turmoil and its increasingly fragile relationship with its...

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern...

A stunning piece of reportage, examining modern India through the stories of three couples who defy their families to be together — across faith, caste and tradition.What would you risk...

Why are our lives shaped by such limited ideas about beauty? How can we break free of them for a happier, more inclusive future?We've all had those moments. The ones...