Society and culture

Nara is a young Philistine woman who has given up hope of ever finding a husband. No man will take a wife who towers head and shoulders above him. She lives in isolation with her father, until she is discovered by the Philistine priests. They betroth

DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Astonishing' Marian Keyes 'Outstanding' John Boyne A luminous, life-affirming novel about a 12-year-old boy who is the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash

At the beginning of the 1980s Neil Ansell chose a life of voluntary poverty working for the Simon Community,

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LEAVING BERLIN

'Sexy-but-literary' Sunday Times 'Complex and psychologically taut' Observer 'Sensual and unsettling' The Scotsman '[A] literary psychological smoulderer' Metro Desire. Deception. Destruction. Devotion.

This is a memoir by French bestselling and award-winning author and musician Mathias Malzieu. It focuses on a single year in which he explores his close encounter with death.