Nell Leyshon The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp tongue and hair... | Anthony Marra In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their life-long friend and... |
Benjamin Percy They live amongst us. They are your neighbour, your mother, your lover. You think they are safe. They change. | Lee Smolin Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life itself as a succession of moments. We identify certain truths as 'eternal' constants, from moral principles to the laws of... |
Albert Espinosa What is the yellow world? The yellow world is a world that's within everyone's reach, a world the colour of sun. It is the name of a way of living... | Hilary Mantel Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2012 Costa Book of the Year. |
Alice Rawsthorn Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely, it can bring us pleasure, choice, strength, decency and more. But if its power is abused... | Keri Smith Instructs readers to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you were born, a used envelope, and more. |
Rhidian Brook Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan has requisitioned a fine house on the banks of the Elbe... | Stuart Evers 'So intelligent and perceptive and so well-written ... this first novel is a fine achievement, something to savour. When I had finished it, I went back and read it again... |
Suzanne Corkin In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent an experimental psychosurgical procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. This title tells the story of the amnesiac Henry Gustave Molaison... | |
Callum Roberts Oceans are the most mysterious places on earth. Their depths remain largely unexplored, yet ninety-five percent of the planet's habitable space lies within them. And now the life they support... | Eduardo Galeano Shows us how to remember and how to live. This book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really... |
John Browne Uranium, carbon, iron, titanium, gold, silver and silicon - how seven elements are shaping the 21st century, for good and bad. | John Updike Presents a collection of essays, poems and short stories. This book includes a collection of the author's best gossip. |