In The Garden Against Time, Olivia Laing writes about the unique and wonderful place that gardens occupy in our lives. She writes about the soul satisfying experience of being in green spaces made all the more meaningful when we take a hand at creating them. She examines the notion of a garden as a personal paradise, and shares how the time she spent working in her garden has transformed her, and enhanced her own experience of life...

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...

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...