The second book in The School of Life's 'Secrets' series, offering lessons on the emotional skills necessary to build and maintain friendships

A deep dive into the power and science of optimism that will change the way you think for good

From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: A diagnosis of America's national trauma, and a way to heal.

INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture by a Pulitzer-prize winning critic.

A landmark investigation into how communities respond to disasters, and what we can learn from these displays of altruism and generosity in the face of adversity.

Published in the UK for the first time, The Possession is a striking meditation on jealousy and a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

An outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the complicated relationship between Joan Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.

Two brothers, two tragedies, one heartbreaking story ***** On 16 October 1942, a family in German-occupied Bloemendaal in Holland finds a baby on their doorstep. They call him Remi, after Nobody’s Boy. They cannot save the baby. The Nazis take the foundling to the Jewish nursery in Amsterdam, opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg (The Dutch Theater), from where the deportations to transit camp Westerbork are carried out. Remi stays there for six months and becomes the darling of both the nurs...