Skyscraper Publications imprint: 9 books

Politically Incorrect

Why a Jewish state is a bad idea

by Ofra Yeshua-Lyth
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

Israel's claim to be a state which is both democratic and Jewish is rarely questioned, but this unique book reveals the extent to which even the rights of its own citizens depend on their religion and ethnic origin. Part lively memoir, part social analysis, it exposes the divisive, pre-democratic values...

State of Terror

How terrorism created modern Israel

by Thomas Suárez
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

From 1940 on, when Palestine was still ruled by the British, violence and terror were used by Zionist terror groups to deny the rights of the indigenous Palestinians to the land they had lived in for generations, and to attack anyone, including the British, who tried to uphold those rights. It is uncomfortable...
by Alyce-Faye Cleese, Brian Bates
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

This book explores how different people have dealt with the issues related to getting on with their mothers. Psychotherapist Alyce-Faye Cleese interviewed a wide range of people to get an in-depth understanding of the different questions that arise in our relationships with our mother. From a New...

The Alien in the Chapel

Ferenc Békássy: Rupert Brooke's Unknown Rival

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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016

Poems and letters by Ferenc Békássy, a World War I poet whose English poems have been compared with Rupert Brooke, a close friend, but were ignored after his early death fighting against the Allies.

A Modest Proposal...

.. to solve the Palestine-Israel Conflict

by Karl Sabbagh
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

In this important short book, Karl Sabbagh, a British-Palestinian writer, proposes a solution to the 100-year-old Palestine-Israel conflict. It is often said that this conflict, a running sore in international politics, is 'too complicated' for most people to understand. Sabbagh shows the opposite...
by Yana Vagner
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

When a virulent flu epidemic sweeps through Moscow killing hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, Anya and her husband Sergey decide to flee to a lake in the far north of Russia where they hope to sit out the epidemic. But as the wave of infection expands from the capital, they encounter obstacles, hazards,...

Royal Babylon

The case against the monarchy

by Heathcote Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016

Heathcote Williams' book-length poems have covered a number of important topics, most notably Whale Nation, a powerful argument for a worldwide ban on whaling. Royal Babylon lays out in verse form what Williams calls 'the criminal record of the British Monarchy.' It is a short but powerful book, detailing...

We Were Not Armed

The family whose lives were stolen by a conman

by Christine de Védrines
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015

This is the story of how a family can be destroyed by a chain of events that begin when one member puts her trust in a conman. At the beginning of the 21st century, the de Védrines were an ancient aristocratic Bordeaux family, educated and socially established. From the outside they had everything they...

"I'll See Myself Out, Thank You"

Thirty personal views in support of assisted suicide

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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015

A series of recent landmark cases have highlighted the issues surrounding assisted suicide and may be shifting public opinion in the direction of greater freedom. These essays cover every aspect of the topic from the legal and religious issues to the deeply personal experiences of patients and carers....
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