Social and ethical issues

I don't feel sorry for myself.

Marie Joseph knew that her arthritis was incurable, but still she was determined not to give in to it - to live a 'complete' life.

Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeWinner of the Longman History Today Trustees' AwardA Waterstones History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Orwell PrizeShortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize'Groundbreaking' - ObserverIn this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.

Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize'Rich, taut and compelling' - Melvyn Bragg, The Guardian'An accomplished display of vocal versatility' - The Literary ReviewThe death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue's Room, is a world-changing story of a boundless love.

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates.

'A strange, enchanting book .

With an introduction by author Eimear McBride.

This is London in the eyes of its the homeless, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and sex workers.

As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.

Les Cummings was three when he was sent to the Children's Cottage Homes in Portsmouth.

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

In October 1988 an Inuit hunter saw three grey whales trapped in the frozen Arctic ocean near Barrow, an isolated Alaskan outpost.

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen.

At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of the new slave colony.

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran.

The compelling story of a woman who survived marriage to one of the UK's most notorious serial killers.

As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions.

Journeying from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.

OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLDAn insightful look at the science behind love, Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections.

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity.

'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy .

By the time Jack was fifteen he was addicted to alcohol and prescription drugs, was hanging out with rock stars in LA and living a life that any teenager would aspire to.

SOON TO BE FEATURED ON THE GRAHAM NORTON BOOK CLUB PODCAST ON AUDIBLEDiscover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America.

'There is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love.

THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE.

In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana's revelations about life in Saudi Arabia's royal family.

We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing.

On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually and emotionally abusing her since she was eight.

'Cities cover just 2% of the world s surface, but consume 75% of the world s resources .

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister Amy wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer.

'If you say anything to your mother, I'll tell her it was your brother.

The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award winning true story behind GoodfellasBy the son and daughter of Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas - On The Run is the harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback.

A young girl at the mercy of her abusive stepfather and the religious community that protects him - Bad Things in the Night is a moving true story of pain and triumph.

The true story of Donna Ford, who between the ages of five and eleven was abused by her stepmother Helen.

Is anxiety making your child's life a misery - causing problems at school, difficulties in making friends or facing new experiences, even affecting their physical health?

Sadly, no one can wave a magic wand over your head and remove your depression and when caught in a downward spiral of negativity the victim of this very common disorder may consider suicide as the only answer.

Traumatised by a terrible event in her childhood, Carla van Raay entered a convent at the age of eighteen.

In this eye-opening book, psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another.

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga.

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life?

Pleasure is one of the most fascinating aspects of being human.

What if every woman in town suddenly went on strike?

Winner of the Jewish Chronicle Harold H.

A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.

By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies, Wolf shows how our culture tries to shape and confine women's desire.

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action.

The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything.

*Can you find the way to Davy's bar?