Terrorist attack in Paris? How are the bistrots faring? Soak up the ambience, and the beaujolais nouveau. WHEN I LEFT MY JOB, my boss teased me in a leaving speech that somehow all of my articles over the years seemed to have, at one point or another, involved a jolly decent meal. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca WaitĬleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors In conversation with Costa Prize-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, whose new novel The Sleep Watcher is about how our understanding of who our families are can shift suddenly and irrevocably.īROWSE ALL OUR EVENTS Our bestsellers this weekīoy Friends: A Memoir of Joy, Grief and Male Friendship by Michael Pedersen - May’s Backstory non-fiction book club choice Wiz Wharton is the author of a debut novel exploring British-Chinese identity, opening in Brixton in the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong.

Her third novel tells the story of Atalanta, a heroine whose role in the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts is often overlooked, but is bursting with legend. Thankfully, Georgina is the perfect guide.īreathing life into legendary women of Greek myth who have been forgotten, misrepresented, or misunderstood, Jennifer Saint is the bestselling author behind the magical Ariadne and Elektra.

Numbers tell stories, if only you know how to read them. Georgina Sturge uses skills from her day job as a researcher in the House of Commons library to debunk nefarious numbers and explain the uses and abuses of statistics in her new book, Bad Data. A manifesto for navigating, and managing, the increasingly digital world. In his book The Digital Republic, Jamie Susskind asks how freedom and democracy can survive in an online world of data leaks, racist algorithms and hate-filled social media.

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