Donald Rayfield in Conversation with Ekaterina Schulmann
5th June, 2025
Wednesday 18 June 2025 6.30pm-8pm Book my tickets Join Donald Rayfield in conversation with Ekaterina Schulmann about his book, ‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate – shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2025…
Reaktion Books turns 40
31st March, 2025
An independent publisher of adventurous and innovative non-fiction since 1985, Reaktion Books celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. With a list that ranges widely across art and visual culture, biography, food history, general history, music, na…
Reaktion Books to publish two more titles by Peter Ackroyd
31st March, 2025
Women on Fire: The Female Prophets of Britain by Peter Ackroyd Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon by Peter Ackroyd Reaktion Books is delighted to announce that it has acquired world rights to Women on Fire: The Female Prophets of Britain and Wilfred…
The Eighth Century: Bishop Eadfrith’s Desert of the Book 11
1st March, 2025
In this, the first of twelve blog posts, author Michelle P. Brown focuses on one illuminated manuscript from the 8th century. You can read more about this, and other manuscripts, in her new book, Illumino. *** The 8th and 9th centuries were a formati…
The Amazing Solar System
27th February, 2025
Join author Keith Cooper as he explores the known (and unknown) solar system in this blog, where he explains what inspired him to write his new book: Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact. *** I first became aware of the idea that planet…
The Shift in Health Care
27th January, 2025
With the recent inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Sander L. Gilman looks at the impact of this and other factors on health care around the world. *** What happens in health care when everything changes on a dime? When a…
On The Assyrians
29th October, 2024
In this blog, author Paul Collins reflects on his new book, The Assyrians: Lost Civilizations. *** Between 900 and 600 BC Assyria came to dominate by military force and administrative efficiency the region reaching from western Iran to Egypt. It was…
On Playgrounds
18th October, 2024
In this blog, author Ben Highmore reflects on his inspiration behind his new book, Playgrounds: The Experimental Years… *** Books often have long gestation periods and sometimes it is hard to remember precisely when an idea or theme first formed. I…
Pity the common cuckoo
9th October, 2024
In this blog, author Cynthia Chris ponders the unfortunate reputation of the humble cuckoo. *** Juvenile common cuckoo with meadow pipit host Walkden Pity the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), onto whom humans project some of our most elaborate…
Mango Memories and Culinary Nostalgia in Literature
2nd October, 2024
In this blog, author Constance L. Kirker discusses the culinary nostalgia in literature around mangoes. *** “Happiness is a mango!” writes Indian American author Amulya Malladi in her novel The Mango Season. Within every culture, there are certain fo…
On Hope
28th August, 2024
In this blog, esteemed philosopher Lars Svendsen, discusses hope, and what it means to us all. *** To hope is not just to wait, to see what happens, but to be drawn towards the future. Hope must be linked to an outcome that is neither certain nor imp…