A companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten , it provides rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. It focuses on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life.

First published in 1993, this work is a portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement. It includes an afterword by the author.

In this issue of Granta Magazine, a distinguished writer makes an anonynous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with ecstasy. Other contributions include Nicholas Shakespeare on discovering the evil of his ancestors, and works from Amanda Hopkinson and Andrew Brown.

In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. This title is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.

David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist, and a central figure of the Enlightenment. This book describes how Hume can be placed as one of the earliest, and most successful, evolutionary psychologists.

Esther Woolfson has been fascinated by corvids, since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook sixteen years ago. That rook - named Chicken - has lived with the family ever since. This book presents an account of her experiences, which gives insights into the closeness human beings can achieve with wild creatures.

The author, the son of poor Jewish immigrants in Vienna, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. For years, he kept the memories of his fellow inmates in his head, but after the tragic death of his young daughter their voices poured forth.

Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? This work presents quizzes that reveal what you really think and what it all adds up to.

In England half a century ago well-brought-up women were meant to aspire to the respectable life. Meg progresses from school to art college with few outward signs of passion or frustration. But when she gets a job and moves to London, Meg does something shocking, even by today's standards.

In this classic of modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness.

A selecton of key pieces from Said's works, including his groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad, through to Culture and Imperialism , to the recently critically acclaimed memoir Out of Place .

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

Diana Athill met Hakim Jamal when she edited his book, From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me, published by Andre Deutsch. Against all odds, they became friends, sometimes lovers.

What do the English think? This work provides an insight into what the English really think about life, death and everything in between. It shows a country in which the familiar becomes strange, and the strange familiar.

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly. With painful honesty, Diana Athill explores the three years they spent together; a period that culminated in Didi's suicide.

In this authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the events of September 11 in America. He discusses the role of the global market and examines the tangled web of grievances that formed the substance of the bombers' complaints.

Provides an account of the English and a portrait of its people and a story about being an alien in your own land. This book shows a country in which the familiar becomes strange, and the strange familiar.

Three strangers meet in Bhopal, India: Francoise, an Australian photographer; Naga, a Tibetan refugee, and Arkay, a Scottish alcoholic drawn to Buddhism. Through their meeting in Bhopal and the relationships that develop between them, this work captures the lure of India for outsiders, and the promise of its spirituality and its layered history.

Set on board the QE2 , and in New York and Liverpool, this story welds together sex and science into a celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess. Jeanette Winterson is the author of Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit and a collection of essays, Art Objects .

Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.