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Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan, Matt Ridley

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. …

The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger …

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is …

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

“Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this …

Shantaram

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan …

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Three-Body Problem Series, #1)

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with …

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on …

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She …

BookofTrespass by Nick Hayes

Non-fiction memoir, The Book of Nick Hayes (Berkshire, public school, Cambridge, and it shows)

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her …

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (The World's classics -- 10)

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families …

Ramble Book by Adam Buxton