Julian Barnes We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch.We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.Her ideas are not to everyone's taste.But she will change the...

Lawrence James A new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire. January 1, 2014 by Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group...

Kurban Said First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet.  Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a...

VV Ganeshananthan Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path...

Annie Ernaux Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to...

Oded Galor This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future...'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery'...

Michelle Obama Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly.How do we build enduring and honest relationships?How can we discover strength and community inside our differences?What do we do...

Marek Halter Halter returns with a remarkable tale, based on truth, of the little-known crusade by a 16C Jew to marshal support for a Jewish state, 4 centuries before the...

Annie Ernaux An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency.I Remain in Darkness recounts Ernaux’s attempts first to help her...

Ale Edmans How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it.Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines,...

Cate Haste The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in historyAlma...

Florence Given GIRLCRUSH  is a dark feminist retelling of Jekyll & Hyde by bestselling author Florence Given. In Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day...