Women who daredSUSAN RAMThe story of 40 exceptional individuals who strode out to give a practical demonstration of women's tenacity and boundless capability.
Hidden historiesSUSAN RAMThe author shares the hopeful vision of the future that fuelled so many of the human lives recorded in her ambitious and free-ranging study.
Housing catastropheSUSAN RAMThe author brings us face to face with the consequences of decisions taken by those far removed from the stench and struggle of slum reality.
Closer to the BardSUSAN RAMThis biography is an elaborate exploration of an elusive literary genius and his world in one turning-point year.
Witness to historySUSAN RAMThe Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk; Fourth Estate, London, 2005; pages 1,366, 25.
Raw emotional intensitySUSAN RAMNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; Faber & Faber, London, 2005; pages 263; 16.99.
The immortal iron outlawSUSAN RAMTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey; Faber & Faber, London, 2001; pages 352, £16.99 (hardback).
Stolen paradiseSUSAN RAMEnglish Passengers by Matthew Kneale; Hamish Hamilton, London, 2000; pages 462, 15.99 (hardback)
Ecology and capitalismSUSAN RAMLate Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis; Verso, London and New York, 2001; pages 464, £20 (har
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
