Freedom Next Time
(Bantam Press, Random House, 2006)
John Pilger

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'Freedom Next Time' was published on 5 June 2006. This is John Pilger's first major collection since 'The New Rulers of the World' and includes chapters on Afghanistan, Palestine, South Africa and India - countries where people either have glimpsed freedom or have reached a critical stage in their struggle. Described by the author as "a guide to the unprecedented threat in our midst and those who resist it on all our behalf", this promises to be one of Pilger's most powerful books.

Click here to read the Guardian's review of this 'outstanding' book.

For more information contact Laura Sherlock at Bantam Press l.sherlock@transworld-publishers.co.uk

Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs
(Jonathan Cape, 2004)
John Pilger

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Over the past few decades, 'investigative journalism' has come to mean the kind of brave reporting that exposes injustice, wrongdoing and, above all, the abuse of power. John Pilger has selected articles, broadcasts and book extracts that have cut through the facade of official silence to reveal important and disturbing truths. The collection features many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years, from the scenes witnessed at the liberation of the death camp at Dachau in 1945, to the bloodshed caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Pilger sets each piece of reporting in its context, often offering personal insights into the writer, and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy.

The New Rulers of the World
(Verso, 2002) John Pilger

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Following his 2002 Carlton TV film of the same name, John Pilger collects both original work and expanded versions of his essays on power, its secrets and illusions in a book that illuminates the nature of modern imperialism. He discloses how up to a million Indonesians died as a price for being the World Bank's 'model pupil' and how the people of Iraq suffered in the wake of the West’s decade-long embargo. He also reflects on Australia's continued subjugation of the Aboriginal people at a time when the country relentlessly hyped its 2000 Sydney Olympics. And, following September 11th and the subsequent bombing of Afghanistan, he outlines the new thrust of US power and its goal of 'world order'.

Reporting The World: John Pilger’s Great Eyewitness Photographers
(21 Publishing, 2001)

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The close relationship between journalist and photographer is studied in this breathtaking selection of work by a wide range of photographers with whom John Pilger has worked or been inspired by. Spanning 35 years, the book covers trouble spots in regional locations from South East Asia, Africa, South America to the USA and UK and Pilger praises the courage and integrity of the photographers in the face of warfare, political upheaval and tense circumstances.

In The Name of Justice: The Television Reporting of John Pilger
(Bloomsbury, 2001)
Anthony Hayward

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Anthony Hayward presents the compelling story of the international crises tackled by John Pilger in over thirty years of television reporting. He examines Pilger's prolific and dramatic television documentaries on subjects ranging from war in Vietnam to the aftermath of Pol Pot's Cambodia, repression in the former Czechoslovakia, East Timor and Burma, continuing discrimination against the Aborigines in Australia, US and British punishment of the Iraqi people for the crimes of their dictator, the injustice of 'globalised' poverty and the realities behind social and political issues in Britain.

He also chronicles the effects and controversies of each documentary and contextualises them within TV's other factual output, and discovers how Pilger has defied broadcasting conventions in order to present a truth that is often unpalatable to authority.

Heroes
(Vintage, 2001)
John Pilger

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First published in 1986, 'Heroes' is John Pilger's classic work. With a new introduction, it is a vivid, engrossing and at times blackly amusing history and personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned.

The heroes of Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions - dissidents in the Soviet Union and those struggling for universal freedoms in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, the Middle East and Central America. They also include the Irish labouring generation of his great-great-grandfather, transported in irons to Australia for uttering 'unlawful oaths'.

A Secret Country
(Vintage, 1992)
John Pilger

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Going beyond the euphemistic and romantic popular misconceptions of Australia, Pilger reveals the often invisible past and the present subterfuge of his native country. Since its very beginning the history of white Australia has been shrouded in secrecy and silence with more cenotaphs per head of population than any other nation and not one stands for those aborigines who fought and died for their land.

Distant Voices
(Vintage, 1994)
John Pilger

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Published to coincide with John Pilger’s television documentary on East Timor, this expanded edition of his bestselling book contains all the original essays - from the myth-making of the Gulf War to the surreal pleasures of Disneyworld - together with new material, the centrepiece of which is Pilger's reporting from East Timor, where a third of the population have died as a result of Indonesia's genocidal policies since 1975.

Hidden Agendas
(Vintage, 1998)
John Pilger

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This is one of John Pilger's most substantial and challenging books. The range is wide, from Vietnam today to Burma under the heel of a military junta and including the full text of Pilger's clandestine interview with Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest. Hidden Agendas also lays out Pilger's critique of the media, from the rise and fall of the Daily Mirror to a history of Rupert Murdoch's notorious influence in a chapter entitled 'A Cultural Chernobyl'.