{"title":"Non-fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"testimonies-on-the-history-of-jamaica","title":"Testimonies on The History of Jamaica","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Zakiya McKenzie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistory was written—England captured Jamaica from the Spaniards under Oliver Cromwell in 1655. Much of this history has been retold by Edward Long, best known for his first socio-economic and political study The History of Jamaica. His polemic supported the enslavement of African and Caribbean people and the monopolies and monocultures played out through the natural environment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese testimonies address some of Long’s claims. A slave woman tells of the naming of Catherine’s Peak and the erasure of the achievements of Black Jamaicans in the field of natural history. A mystic takes us back to the Spanish occupation. The maroons Juan de Bolas and Juan de Serras grieve their fate and the tragic future that came with sugarcane. These are imaginings of what the people who lived through this wrestling of Jamaica might have said, given the chance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Zakiya McKenzie is a writer and cultural historian based in Bristol, UK. In 2019 she was writer-in-residence for Forestry England and in 2021 she was artist-in-residence at Studio Voltaire in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. McKenzie was the 2023 winner of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOlivette Otele Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein Black British Studies\u003cbr\u003econvened by the Institute of Historical Research. Her paper titled ‘\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Making of the Empire Windrush as a cultural motif’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003echallenged the contemporary idea of the Empire Windrush as a vessel of hope and dreams for post war Caribbean people in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-color has-extra-small-font-size\"\u003eDr. McKenzie finished a PhD in English from the University of Exeter on the history of Black British newsprint in December 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-color has-extra-small-font-size\"\u003eZakiya’s essays have appeared in a number of anthologies including,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003eHaunting Ashton Court: A Creative Handbook for Collective History-Making\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(2023),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003eRadical Landscapes: Art, Identity and Activism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(Tate, 2022),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReading the Forest: A Forest of Dean Anthology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Douglas McLean Publishing, 2022),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWomen on Nature: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about the Natural World in the East Atlantic Archipelago\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Unbound, 2021),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton, 2021) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wild Isles: An Anthology of the Best of British \u0026amp; Irish Nature Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Head of Zeus, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50755992355150,"sku":"","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/k0cv2s19.png?v=1735048753"},{"product_id":"city-of-sanctuary-seeking-refuge-in-bristol","title":"City of Sanctuary? 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Led by artist Jack Young, using the methodology of Philosophy for Children, each class carefully considered questions of justice and freedom, conjuring up imaginaries of how life would be organised on the ‘Island of Us’.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication-details\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication-details\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eIsland of Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an invitation to think about the kind of world we live in and how it might be otherwise. Taking place across one week at the end of the summer term, over 300 pupils from Chisenhale Primary School took over Chisenhale Gallery in response to Rory Pilgrim’s exhibition\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003epink and green\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawing on the island location of the exhibition and its explorations of justice and freedom with men incarcerated at HMP Portland, students spent the week as artists, exploring the complicated issue of how we should treat people who might have hurt others. Through island-dreaming, fables, manifesto-making, and populating the island with people, places, plants, and buildings, the students used art to imagine the kind of world we want to live in. The book showcases their collaborative work and the discussions that took place. It also includes session plans, resources and inspiration for artists and educators to initiate related projects in the classroom or elsewhere.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication-details\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication-details\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJack Young\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and socially-engaged artist living in Bristol. 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It’s tender, sexy, sly and dextrous, moving relentlessly along deep channels, emerging unexpectedly into sweet air, alert to language at every step.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Sabon_Roman\"\u003e— Olivia Laing, author of \u003cem\u003eEverybody: A Book About Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Sabon_Roman\"\u003e‘Kate Morgan’s \u003cem\u003eIngress\u003c\/em\u003e is a startling, many-headed meditation on language, art, and the natural world, opening you up to sensations and collapsing interior and exterior. A garden becomes a text becomes a body. The personal and the analytic mingle and slyly astonish. Morgan is one of those magicians who suspends reality through precision and excavation, digging deeper into experience, and also one of those metaphysicians who finds meaning at-hand in the daily and then disperses it all to be gathered again. This result is potent, moving, and mysterious.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Sabon_Roman\"\u003e— Nate Lippens, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Dead Book: A Novel \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Sabon_Roman\"\u003e‘It doesn't matter what genre this book is (essay, personal diary, notebook), nor what its subject matter is (a garden, a sculpture, the plumbing system underlying a house, love), because in some mysterious way, it manages to transform the material part of the world into poetic intensity and affect whoever holds it in their hands, as if it were a flood, overwhelming and reassuring at the same time. In this sense, the omnipresent water in this truly lyrical exploration of reality seems to take over the words and transform this text into an organism with a life of its own.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Sabon_Roman\"\u003e— Cecilia \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Sabon_Roman\"\u003ePavòn, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Joy: Selected Stories \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Sabon_Roman\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eIngress \u003c\/em\u003eis a text that enacts its own name, a shining thing seeping into the reader––which is the same \u003c\/span\u003eact as the drawing out of relation, the intimacy of attention paid at the shifting edges of things. 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Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and literary experiment, it begins with a personal trauma-the account of how Emily LaBarge and her family were held hostage during the Christmas holidays of 2009-but looks outwards as much as inwards for answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSkilful and controlled, but also searching and febrile, this is a book that unsettles time and narrative, art and imagination, embodying in form the trauma that it describes. Taking in writers and artists from Vivian Gornick to Robert Burton, David Lynch to Sylvia Plath, LaBarge picks apart the structures of narrative forms to ask how it might be possible to tell the 'Good Story', and its aftermath, on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eEmily La Barge is a Canadian writer based in London. Her essays and criticism have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, amongst others. She is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eDog Days \u003c\/i\u003eis her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn incandescent book, a landmark in how to bring language to bear on the unspeakable. Beautiful, uncompromising, rigorous and totally original. - Olivia Laing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDog Days \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about the relentless presentness of the past and the philosophical vertigo that follows a harrowing life-altering event. What emerges is a profound and necessary inquiry into how we assemble a self from the fragments of what we’ve read, what we’ve seen, and what we’ve survived. - Anne Boyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily LaBarge is always intellectually agile and emotionally capacious. - Deborah Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily LaBarge renders trauma as a lived experience, and so \u003ci\u003eDog Days \u003c\/i\u003eis not merely a trauma study, of which there are many, but also a unique literary experience. \u003ci\u003eDog Days\u003c\/i\u003e is rich in ideas. A fascinating work, unusually conceived and written, disturbing, honest, and profound. - Lynne Tillman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn expansive, invigorating and compassionate book. LaBarge analyses a wide-range of art and literature with a deftness, boldness and generosity that reminded me of the best Susan Sontag. I look forward to pressing this into the hands of all my friends. - Rebecca Birrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary work of writing; a profound odyssey of bringing into the shared space of language what dwells beyond its margins. The writing illuminates architectures of pain, repetition, and shifting temporalities, in a singular light that somehow manages to make the great fiction, poetry, film, art, it reflects upon even richer. A book that has such intensely stunning passages that I miss as soon as I have finished reading them. - Tai Shani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere the worst shocks of life threaten to undermine thought, imagination and literary form, \u003ci\u003eDog Days \u003c\/i\u003epatiently, ferociously, insists on new ways to think, imagine and write. I plan to re-read it every time I feel my mind go soft. I found it a challenge, an inspiration—a very cool book. - Amber Husain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn expansive and beautiful meditation on trauma and its styles, but also how reading and looking and gathering and writing, as a practice of co-creation with the perceptual, sustains our existence—this too is lived experience. - Lucy Mercer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55018580640078,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/dkao79p8.png?v=1761040273"},{"product_id":"the-foundations-of-zionism","title":"The Foundations of Zionism","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Sabri Jiryis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTranslated by Fida Jiryis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eEbb Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePaperback, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e614 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTranslated into English for the first time since its original publication by the PLO's Palestine Research Center, this book extensively details the origins of Zionism and its development as an ideology and political project that has wrought havoc in the Middle East and beyond over the last century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe Foundations of Zionism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e chronicles this development from Zionism's early origins up to the establishment of the British mandate over Palestine in 1923, refuting many of the movement's own foundational myths - from its early relationship to the Palestinians to its exclusively religious character. Sabri Jiryis delves into Zionism's successive congresses and factional struggles, its early failures to settle in Palestine and the formation of armed militias, and its temporary alliances with the Ottoman Empire before the movement eventually secured support from Western colonial powers such as Britain. In a newly written conclusion, Jiryis reconsiders the Zionist project 100 years on from the Balfour Declaration and amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA magisterial and comprehensive analysis of Zionism from its earliest iterations to the present. Every person who claims to oppose Israeli genocide needs to read this book for a proper understanding of Zionist motivations and attitudes, told from the point of view of its primary victims. The translation of Jiryis's opus gives Anglophone observers of Palestine the opportunity to bypass the anguished dilemmas of one-time Zionists that dominate discourse in the Global North and instead engage with one of the finest texts of the Palestinian intellectual tradition. - Steven Salaita, Professor in the English and Comparative Literature department, The American University in Cairo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA foundational and vital work. Jiryis' book is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand Zionism's monstrous rise from myth to mandate, and a sobering reminder that there is no redeeming it. - Mohammed el-Kurd, Palestinian writer and poet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSabri Jiryis has written a most comprehensive and detailed history of the foundations of Zionism. An accomplished Palestinian historian in his own right, Jiryis' 1976 book on the history of the Israeli state's subjection of Palestinian citizens after 1948 remains an indispensable classic. His new book on Zionism, originally published in Arabic, has finally been translated to English and at a most auspicious moment in the history of the ideology and the movement. Based on extensive research from Zionist and Israeli sources, Jiryis' \u003ci\u003eThe Foundations of Zionism \u003c\/i\u003ewill be equally indispensable to readers and specialists interested in the policies of the state of Israel and its official ideology. Erudite and thorough, the book reminds us that nothing the state of Israel does falls outside the foundations of its ruling ideology. 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