Hurst is an independently owned and run non-fiction publisher, based in London but publishing globally. We have a track record of fifty years of distinguished non-fiction publishing for a general readership. Today, we produce around 90 new books a year, building on our strengths in Current Affairs, History, Politics, War Studies, African Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and South Asian Studies. We like to publish books that surprise as well as inform our readers, while assuring them that they meet the norms of scholarly and literary excellence.