The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien

The Book of Records by Madeleine ThienWhy did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth

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Young cat lovers will enjoy finding out how cats evolved from wild animals to become pets

Black Panther

It is perhaps the most helpful book for parents of children of any age' Professor Peter Fonagy

the inhabitants of the democratic world

One for the ages' Maxim Jakubowski

The God of Good Looks is a story about prejudice and pride

armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine

from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem

Meet the merman from China whose tears turn to pearls and Hans Christian Anderson's brave little mermaid

our own wellbeing

Could one of the Society members be harbouring a murderous secret