Lucky

LuckyIn a memoir hailed for its searing candour and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen year old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends

Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science

Not long ago

Much more than dessert

A new brother takes getting used to

thrust into poverty at the dawn of a new political regime

full of insights into his passions and motivations

Scott and Freya Stark

Jessica: In Love with her Best Friend Jessica has thrown herself into her work to shut out the memory of the man who never loved her back

the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons

colourful artworks convey the drama of the Bible

Prototypes of new products that would have cost $100

magic goes terribly wrong - killing her and leaving Paris bound to Romeo