Portobello Books imprint: 8 books

Enslaved

The New British Slavery

by Rahila Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. Rahila Gupta seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories in this compelling book. We meet...

Scapegoat

Why We Are Failing Disabled People

by Katharine Quarmby
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011

Every few months there’s a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. It’s easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care system, but in fact they point to a more uncomfortable...

The Wizard Of The Nile

The Hunt For Joseph Kony

by Matthew Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel leader: he is said to take his orders directly from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalized child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Joseph Kony is now an internationally...
by Dimitri Verhulst
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012

Years ago, Madame Verona and her husband built a home for themselves on a hill in a forest above a small village. There they lived in isolation, practising their music, and chopping wood to see them through the cold winters. When Mr Verona died, the locals might have expected that the legendary beauty...
by Jo Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

JO BAKER was born and grew up in Lancaster, educated at Oxford and Belfast, and now teaches creative writing at Lancaster University. She is the author of two previous novels, both published by Heinemann. She is also a script writer, whose adaptation of Charlotte Bront?'s Shirley, has just won funding from the Irish Film Board.

Middle Age

A Natural History

by David Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology - and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions: have I come to the end of my productive...

Filthy English: The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing

The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing

by Peter Silverton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011

When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language...
by Marieke Van Der Pol
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

It is 1953, and the last great transcontinental air race from London to Christchurch is about to begin, but even before the KLM plane has left the runway, it has already become famous as the 'bride flight'. Of its sixty emigrating passengers, many are brides-to-be flying out to join their fiancés...
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