Society and culture

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of his first 35 years.

A life-affirming novel about broken but loving families, people making mistakes but doing their best, grief and getting stuck - for readers of ELEANOR OLIPHANT, THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP and WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT

Behind every great writer there is a beloved pet, providing inspiration in life and in death, and companionship in what is often a lonely working existence.

Josie only had the gun to frighten Curtis Rook, but his son disturbed her. One startled reflex and now he's dead. Josie flees to Poland leaving her boyfriend Snaz to take the rap.

Artist, soldier, politician, madman? We know the headlines, we know about the atrocities, but what do we really know of the man at the heart of it all?

"Please, Goddess, send me a friend who knows about the same things I know." "Please, God, send me a friend... a girl about my age who believes in angels too!"

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spe

Giving a father's insight into life with his daughter Maria, aged 12, who has autism, this comic tells the story of their week's holiday in the Canary Islands.