Set in Zanzibar, Gurnah's latest novel follows several characters across the final decades of the C20th and into the 21st. Their families overlap as their lives play out against the backdrop of a country in the aftermath of empire. Gurnah's prose is warm and uncomplicated. Enchanting.

It is almost impossible to remember that the characters aren’t four real women. Powerful, evocative and continually surprising in all its insights, Dream Count is a vivid exploration of how lives go on and off course. The first novel in ten years from the celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun and others.

Wry, chatty, glitzy memoir by the former editor of Vanity Fair, staff writer for Time and Life, and co-creator of Spy. His stable of writers included Christopher Hitchens, Fran Lebowitz and Michael Lewis; among the photographers, Mario Testino and Annie Leibovitz - whose shoots were said to involve crew lunches more expensive than an entire see more

The latest in PVA's platter of pocket-sized essay collections non-fiction (on Music, Film and The Animal World), with writing by Lynne Tillmann, Niven Govinden and other monumental figures.

Macfarlane's powerful new book is a beautiful torrent of vivid language and research - and also his most political work so far. As we'd expect from this remarkable writer, he ranges from the very personal to ideas of immense consequence for us all.

The myth of a holy river is discovered to be true when a young man returns to his ancestral village in the Punjab and finds water in his grandmother's well. What follows is an immersive, satirical plunge into populism, folklore, empire and environment.

The second part of de Bellaigue's enthralling trilogy about Suleyman the Magnificent, following on from The Lion House which covered his rise. Here he is at his zenith, and considering his succession.

A nimble novel in which a postgrad working on Virginia Woolf finds her life and work turning into a sort of Möbius strip. Funny, sharp, engagingly odd.

The Hohenzollerns’ distaste for the Weimar Republic (which ousted them) led to close personal alliances with the Nazis, which in turn encouraged many of their supporters to do likewise.

This is the blistering account of what it was like to work for Mark Zuckerberg, by a former employee. Funnily enough, the self-styled champion of free speech tried to ban it.