Decolonisation and postcolonial studies

The Crown’s Silence

A ground-breaking and essential work of history – the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family’s connection with the transatlantic slave trade

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

‘One of the greatest writers of our time.’ Toni Morrison

‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century.’ The New York Times Book Review

Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

‘An important contribution … Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic – and which remain deeply relevant and contentious today’Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious Empire

For The People

A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018

‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré

A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which explorers, railway labourers, decadent émigrés, freedom fighters, and pioneering African leaders made Shakespeare their own in this alien land.

Congo

FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY

‘Not only deserves the description “epic”, in its true sense, but the term “masterpiece” as well’ Independent

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