Mighty Dead Why Homer MattersLonglisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ? There's something that hits the mark on every page' Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman

better sleep

from cruising around Alaska and Antarctica to train journeys in Zambia and Zimbabwe

This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959

to weekend dishes for sharing with friends

heartbreak and romance

Book of the Year

harvesting

This is a high-end art book featuring over 300 images from the latest game in the critically and commercially acclaimed 'Alien' franchise

and London has spent years in the shadow of the First World War

including Ibn Battuta (14th-century explorer)

None of them return

Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors