Society and culture

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC.

Hafez is among the most celebrated of Persian mystic poets, thriving alongside such towering figures as Rumi and Saadi. Ubiquitous in Iran, he has also been hugely influential in the West.

A delightful new edition of an old favourite. The artwork has been entirely redone, with appealing illustrations reflecting the beauty of the words.

The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground Control London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK.

In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa.

People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. This living visual history vividly documents ordinary lives alongside luminaries and landmark moments.

OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you `fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems.

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