Language and Litterature

Source Code describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates' life from his childhood in Seattle to dropping out of Harvard aged 20 in 1975. Shortly afterwards he wrote, with Paul Allen, the programme which became the foundation of Microsoft and eventually for the entire software industry, changing the way the world works and lives.

Gates writes about the centrality of family t

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.

Books of the Year 2025: The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, New Statesman

'Remarkable' Guardian

'Elegant and joyful' Financial Times

Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the

The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh, it became a site of pilgrimage. He and dozens like him call themselves 'stalkers': wild adventurers who sneak past border patrols to spend days getting lost in this apocalyptic environment of dense swampla

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor Jozsef Debreczeni

When Jozsef Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of inc

When you're a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you've been told is a lie?

Rome, 1964. As 13 year old André stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure. André is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a moth

As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions.

Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatjes long-awaited return to poetry .

Heroines of Horticulture is a celebration and a salute to 100 brave, determined, creative women who shaped North America’s heritage and its landscape. They needed courage and determination and there are tales of invention, creativity, dogged research, innovation, perspiration and inspiration which helped to shape North America.