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What is politics? How does Parliament work? Is the great British democracy even a true democracy?

In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.

Stand up poet Tim Clare's memoir of trying to write and publish the perfect book, mired by peer-jealousy and depression, is the best tool for any budding writer wanting an insight into the creative process.

Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

Tristram Stuart's second book is an informative and energetic investigation of the global food crisis.

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs.

Persepolis is Satrapi's history of Iran and her life in Iran and France as she tries to retain her Iranian culture but also grow up and become independent.

Harriet Sergeant's three year friendship with a teenage gang, and in particular the gang leader, Tuggy Tug began when she was researching a report on why so many black Caribbean and white working class boys are failing

At once a wonder voyage, an adventure story, an exercise in visionary cartography, and a work of natural history, it is written in a style and a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned.

Platt's biography of Western Road, which runs from White City to the Hanger Lane gyratory, chronicles its construction in the 1920s through to its more recent partial demolition and dilapidated condition.

In 1976, Thomas Goltz, then a naive twenty-one-year-old on the trail of his errant brother, worked his way around Africa putting on one-man Shakespeare performances.

Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain

A droll and informative anti-pseudo-science book from Fine that essentially debunks the Mel Gibson-film What Woman Want.

In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton motorcycle. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara.

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past.

People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong- a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France

Packed with hilarious and embarrassing anecdotes about some of the greatest cricketers of the last 20 years.

Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding.

What Daniel Swift does with this slim but fascinating debut book is to fuse a history of one part of the Second World War with a reclamation and a reevaluation of the the poetry it created.

The author of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary returns with a magisterial and entertaining study of how English became English, and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages, many originating from the most unlikely places.

I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month'.

A 200-page survey of the history of the city, from Roman times to the present.

Tina Fey, the creator of 30 Rock, one of Saturday Night Live’s best stalwarts and she of the uncanny Sarah Palin impressions in the run-up to the 2008 USA elections, may not be as widely known here as she should be

An antidote to the broadsheet commentariat, this street-level view of the defining moment of the Summer of Unrest finds much to inspire hope and confidence for our future.

The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life- making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles.

Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago

A treasure trove of Shaun Tan’s sketches and drawings that inspired him to create his picture books