Born from a frustration with today’s sound-bite driven “rolling” news, Pocket Issue titles pull together the background to some of the biggest challenges facing our world – delivering the facts in an independent and quick-to-digest format.

Designed for our time-pressed lives, these short and pithy handbooks quickly brief you with enough facts to join the debate.

Pocket Issue, Middle East Conflict tackles the big questions in an easy-to-read pocket guide. What is the fighting about? How did it start? Does the conflict encourage Islamic terrorism? Can there be peace in the region?

The history, the politics, the key players, the future – Pocket Issue gives you the vital information quickly and accurately.

‘A brilliant wheeze: The essence of the debate in a very approachable format’
Harriet Lane, The Observer

Exactly what any busy person needs – the facts at your fingertips! Never get caught out again when a conversation starts on the big issues of our time’
Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 and Panorama

‘For everyone who longs to be well informed but lacks the time (or attention span).’
Alex Clark, The Observer

'Prep yourself by keeping the one on global warming in the downstairs loo…’
Mary Killen, The Spectator

Precisely what’s needed…’
Hephzibah Anderson, The Daily Mail