Poppy

Gregor Salmon

Afghanistan has become the world's largest producer of opium and its offshoot, heroin - all under the noses of Western civil and military stakeholders. At the nexus of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, truth is as elusive and fragile as the new democracy itself, now on the brink of being consumed ...

About a Boy

Nick Hornby

About a Boyis Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller'How cool was Will Freeman?'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women- attend single par...

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

Henry Marsh

'Magnificent.' Rachel Clarke 'A book to treasure and reread; I'm very grateful for it.' Gavin Francis As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to m...