Mother Mary Comes To MeThe incredible first memoir from the Booker winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roys first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as my shelter and my storm. Distraught and even a little ashamed at

Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto

heartbreak and deathly beauty

from ancient Greece to today

and aides in luring us into his memories

gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation

leaving Prague for New York at the age of five in 1939

hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief

The volume embraces her experiments with the short story and pieces of non-fiction from the 1940s through to her more polished compositions of the fifties and early sixties

Law Wai Heng

Aleppo drew merchants from Venice

Few would dispute the notion that the inaugural meeting in 1955 was a watershed in international history

power and truth