On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing personsIn the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. The child remembered nothing of these events and nobody ever spoke of them. It was another 50 years before she even learned of the kidnap. The girl became an artist and had a daughter, art writer Laura Cumming. Cumming grew up enthralled by her mother's strange tales of life in a seaside hamlet of the

And in a history without war with the humans

What forces have forged our planet and how have they in turn governed our evolution

For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun

Horace found himself incarcerated in a prison camp in Poland

the terrifying Nero

Alex Bellos travelled to Tokyo to meet the puzzle masters behind these habit-forming brainteasers and brought back over 200 puzzles that will flex

a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field

they systematically get the answers wrong

he always responded that he would still prefer to live as data

Dreyer's English is the distillation of everything he has learned from copy-editing thousands of books

Henry Hitchings

there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades