This book was published in 1987, when the writer and critic was 52 years old. The focus of this memoir is her tempestuous relationship with her mother, something that morphed and shifted as Gornick herself grew older, but always remained intense and challenging...

Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. This is a memoir in which he shares the story of his remarkable life and gives a fascinating account of how the world wide web came to be. Unlike so much of what makes up the internet today, the web was not invented in or by a tech company. It was created by a physicist working at CERN who began by wanting to create an information sharing system for the people working within the organisation...

This is a book that tries to answer a very fundamental question, How to Live?  Not how we should live, in the sense of morality, but how to live a good life, a fully human, satisfying, and flourishing one. Sarah Bakewell tries to answer this question through the medium of the life and writings of one man, Michael de Montaigne, the man who single-handedly created the literary genre of the essay, and gave it its name...

Julian Barnes likes to cook. He's a competent cook with a simple ambition. To cook tasty, nutritious food, and to, over time, expand his culinary repertoire. But with him, it's all about the recipes and the instructions. He can and will follow them faithfully, but he needs them to be precise...In this collection of essays, Barnes brings his pedantic but charming outlook to life in the kitchen.

Tom Fort is a writer, and an angler who aspires to be handy. In 2018, his daughter-in-law, Sharona, took over their local hardware shop, a century old place called Heath and Watkins. While she, as the handy-woman of the family, was the driving force behind it, the rest of the family got involved in some capacity, and the author got to be a part of the day to day working of a village hardware shop...

This is a book about stoicism, an introduction to the fundamental ideas and teachings, and an exploration of the ways in which these ancient ideas apply to our lives today. It’s a very accessible book because the author takes what are sometimes complex ideas, and relates them to events and experiences in her own life...