Excellent... Chang has been working hard at providing an alternative to neoliberalism for two decades... Now he's reached the summit of the profession

Chang has a rare gift for explaining complex ideas... whether he is dealing with food or economics, Chang is a delightful writer

The only book I've ever read that made me laugh, salivate and re-evaluate my thoughts about economics - all at the same time. A funny, profound and appetising volume

A brilliant riposte to the myth that policymakers can survive on plain neoliberal fare. Edible Economics is a moveable feast of alternative economic ideas wrapped up in witty stories about food from around the world. Ha-Joon Chang proves yet again that he is one of the most exciting economists at work today

A fascinating stew of food, history and economics

Ha-Joon Chang has done it again. His prose delights and nourishes in equal measure. Somehow he manages to smuggle an urgent discussion of the relevance of economics to our daily lives into stories about food and cooking that are charming, funny and sweet (but never sour). In taking on the economic establishment, Chang is like a teddy bear savaging a rottweiler

Ha-Joon Chang blends culinary facts and economic expertise in this rollicking guide... Chang infuses the survey with food-related trivia, covers an impressive swatch of economics, and concludes with a call that readers scrutinize, think imaginatively, and be open-minded in their quest for economic knowledge

A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth.

Startling, spirited ... Knowles is alert to arresting details ... a wry primer to the extravagances of the super rich.

Years of footwork through the streets of central London have gone into producing this magnificent but disturbing book on the lives and influence of the super-rich. Knowles writes with enviable lightness and pace about how money, property, birth, breeding, contacts, secrecy, parasites and servants have created a class that owns and milks London, a world away from the city's ordinary citizens. A powerful ethnography of plutocratic power.

An innovative and disturbingly entertaining travelogue covering one of the most important issues of our time ... could not have been published at a more critical time.

Sociologist Caroline Knowles takes you through the neighborhoods of the capital city telling stories of how the ultra-wealthy live and work; how they spend their money, marry and divorce; and why London is one of the best places for those with nefarious intentions to hide money from authorities.

A guided tour of the spaces and lifestyles of London's super-rich. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that draws the reader into spaces and conversations otherwise out of bounds, Knowles subtly exposes the paradoxes inherent within the life and politics of the super-rich in London.

A beautiful account of the universal love affair between mothers and sons. Justin Webb's acute observation of his eccentric, emotionally-repressed mum is full of love and generosity and will give hope to parents' everywhere.

A brave and emotional book

Justin Webb's memoir is unique: for its style, acute observation, and the combination of being unflinching and written with love.

Justin Webb's vivid childhood memoir reads like a collection of scenes from cherished sitcoms of his youth. A life spent under the spell of eccentric "ineffably snobbish" mother Gloria and "stark staring mad" stepfather Charles is part Keeping Up Appearances and part Reggie Perrin. Webb writes about it all with wit and fondness but beneath the surface lurks a great deal of heartbreak ... Webb has always seemed unflappable on the airwaves. These entertaining soul-searching memoirs help to explain his ability to keep calm and carry on.

He may have one of the bestknown voices in Britain as the longest-serving presenter of Radio 4's Today programme, but it turns out he is a wonderful writer, too.
This superb memoir stops just as Webb joins the BBC and is an immaculate portrait of a certain type of middle-class upbringing in the 1970s ... To those of us of, um, a certain age, one of the joys of this warm, generous book (significantly, dedicated to his stepfather as well as his mother) is the detail of life in that extraordinary decade - nipping off with a packet of Players No6, cider at 70p a gallon, listening to Fire by Arthur Brown or watching Tomorrow's World where 'chaps in ill-fitting suits tried to explain new-fangled devices called computers'. A pleasure to read.

One of the best biographies of the year: a surprisingly upbeat and witty 'misery memoir'.

The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion

An accessible and exceptional humanitarian

Sen is one of the great minds of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We owe him a huge debt

A distinguished inheritor of the tradition of public philosophy and reasoning - Roy, Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru ... if ever there was a global intellectual, it is Sen