Åsne Seierstad

'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph Åsne Seierstad is one of the greatest, most courageous journalists of our time. . . This is an important, heartbreaking book' Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation 'An astonishing feat of writing and reporting . . . one of the finest books...

A totally unprecedented, behind the scenes portrait of Putin's Russia at war. Astonishing. A major work — Antony Beevor Putin's Russia silences its citizens, targets foreign journalists and invaded a neighbouring country — while declaring it illegal to say the country is at war. This is what we know from the outside: but what does it feel like on the...