Biography & Memoir
Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
Paperback
A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularise come to life in this moving requiem.
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Hardback
A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Hardback
A memoir about the author’s father, whose courageous defence of a black man accused of rape calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird.
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Hardback
A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race.
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Paperback
From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves