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Social commentator and writer Roxane Gay’s debut collection of short stories and other pieces of writing, Ayiti is an evocative read about the experiences of the Haitian diaspora. Gay is perhaps most famous for her 2014 book, Bad Feminist. A much-awarded autho...

The book, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins, documents–for the first time ever–legendary chess player Garry Kasparov’s defeat by the supercomputer, Deep Blue. Kasparov analyses his 1997 defeat and goes into detail about...

Dubbed the world’s bestselling mysteries, this book has sold 100 million copies worldwide. The novel has been listed as the sixth best-selling title (any language, including reference works). Agatha Christie has described it as the most difficult of her books ...

Perhaps one of the most famous mysteries by Agatha Christie, this book has at its centre her pompously eccentric yet charming Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. The original book came out in 1934, and its latest movie adaptation came out in 2017, starring the ...

The second novel by Hernan Diaz, which came out in 2022, won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the following year. The book was also longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction in 2022. Written in a metafictional style, the book de...

This self-help book teaches you principles of self-acceptance and compassion that can change your life for the better. A behavioural psychologist, author Nick Trenton says you can transform your negative thoughts into a fulfilling, empowering, and positive nar...

Published by New Scientist, and featuring an introduction by Stephen Hawking, this one doesn’t come across a typical science book. And yet it covers a great deal of ground, exploring the modern origin stories of everything from the Big Bang, meteorites and dar...

The book has been described as “an astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence.” Research has revealed that plants are pretty impressive in terms of what they are capable of. They communicate with each ...