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From the author of 'ICE ROAD' and 'EVERY SECRET THING', this is an extraordinary novel of the truth Commission, set in a hot and dry South African town.

A new verbatim drama from the team behind Guantanamo: Honour Bound to Defend Freedom. Recent headlines have been dominated by the growth of Islamic State, and terror attacks claimed by IS have spread across the world. This piece of documentary theatre is the result of many months of research, including conversations with people affected by IS and those involved in the fight against it.

Set in Leningrad of the 1930s, 'ICE ROAD' is a passionate story about ordinary people - Boris, Natasha, Irina - caught up in history.

A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a...

"Written with the pace of a thriller" Times Literary Supplement. Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a former police deputy, is being taken in handcuffs to the station where he once worked. There he will confront Alex Mpondo, the man he had tortured, who is now an MP."

A revelatory and necessary survival memoir of five years of illegal detainment and torture in Guantanamo Bay

On September 11, 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. In a series of terrible events, Ahmed was sold by the Pakistanis to the Americans in the diplomatic lounge at Islamabad airport and spent five and a half years in Guantanamo. There, he was beaten, tortured, humiliated, and...

Set amid the tumult of the German invasion