Presents an account of the author's journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world.

A penetrating look at the way in which experts, policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. With examples, Said demonstrates that the government-business establishment has produced a portrait of Islam and Muslims based on ignorance, inaccuracy and prejudice.

As a young reporter, Christina Lamb risked all to experience the real Afghanistan. This memoir recounts her return, years later, as she unmasks a cross-section of its society, from torturers and war victims to women who must still hide behind a facade of propriety.

A history of the world in 1688, from Japan and Indonesia to the London of William III and the Versailles of Louis XIV. It is a sweeping narrative of different cultures being drawn together by the pull of trade and violence: a world where spices, silver and slaves made fortunes and ruined lives.

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown).

The story of the author's journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul.