Alex Perry: 14 books
Clooney's War
South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new...
Falling off the Edge
Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
If the world is flat, as Thomas Friedman says, then aren't some people going to be falling off the edge? Award-winning Time Magazine correspondent Alex Perry (China, India, and Africa) takes us on an unforgettable journey to some of the planet's most remote and dangerous places to explore the sharp...
Once Upon a Jihad
Life and death with the young and radicalised
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Published in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in Paris in January 2015, Alex Perry's latest book examines the the question of what it is that drives young people to reject the society in which they have lived and been educated, in the name of radical causes. Perry follows a...
by Alex Perry
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
‘My name is Tay Raining, and this is my brother Ellstone. I wonder if you’ve heard of us … I have a birthmark shaped like a question mark on my hand, I think it might mean something but I’m not sure what. My brother is probably important too, though I can’t imagine how. I’m rambling now,...
La gran grieta
El despertar de África
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2016
La extraordinaria historia de cómo 1.000 millones de africanos están superando la caridad, a los déspotas y a los yihadistas para, finalmente, obtener su libertad.
Desde hace mucho, los extranjeros han comprendido mal África y han abusado de ella. Alex Perry ha viajado por el continente...
Lifeblood
How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. They're not sleeping,” Sachs told him. They're in malarial...
The Hunt For Boko Haram
Investigating the Terror Tearing Nigeria Apart
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
After 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the militant Islamic group Boko Haram in April, the call to #bringbackourgirls was briefly taken up across the world. French president, François Hollande, America's first lady, Michelle Obama, film star and activist, Angelina Jolie, and the Archbishop of Canterbury,...
by Alex Perry
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2016
"Afrika entwickelt sich unaufhaltsam. Letzten Endes wird es sich befreien." Alex PerryWir wissen alles darüber, wie die Menschen in Afrika sterben, aber nichts darüber, wie sie heute leben. Das ändert Alex Perry, der als Auslandskorrespondent des "Time Magazine" fast ein Jahrzehnt...
The Rift
A New Africa Breaks Free
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.
Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs...
Cocaine Highway
The lines that link our drug habit to terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
“The only reason I can write about any of this - how cocaine smuggling is ruining an area of Africa the size of Western Europe – is because I have agreed to identify almost no one who spoke to me.” In Cocaine Highway, Alex Perry lifts the lid on a problem few are willing to talk about: direct connections...
The Good Mothers
The True Story of the Women Who Took On the World's Most Powerful Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Nominated for a 2019 Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime
Named a CrimeReads best Nonfiction Crime Book of 2018
The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias – and how they risked everything to bring it down.
The...
by Katharina Gerlach, Ava Fairhall, K.V. Moffet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Solve a mermaid's problem…
Step off the edge of a roof…
Dig up a grave at midnight…
Take advice from a fortune cookie…
Visit the last library…
Meet a bridge troll…
And more…
In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...
by Joshua Palmatier, Troy Carrol Bucher, Blake Jessop
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter…
From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression,...
by Alex Morgan, Amanda Thackeray, Kate Perry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
First opened in the 1740s, Stourhead has captivated visitors for centuries - on opening, one magazine even described it as a 'living work of art'. This guidebook shows why, exploring the Palladian mansion, housing a picture collection so large it required a new room to be built, to its world-famous landscape...