Literature & Ideas is the fifth volume in The Human Record. It turns from the world we discover to the words and ideas we use to make sense of it: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from The Spoken and the Written through The Shapes of Story, How to Live How to Die, The Word and the World, and The Inner World, closing with How We Live Together. Each card is built around a single work or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for gu...

Culture Générale is the first volume in The Human Record, a series built to start real conversations. Inside are 260 discussion cards arranged in thirteen groups, moving from Wonder & Discovery and The Natural World through Words & Language, The Ancient World, Art & Beauty, Philosophy & Ideas, and Geography & Place. Each card opens onto something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, families, classrooms, and curious readers, the book treats general knowledge not as trivi...

Science & Wonder is the fourth volume in The Human Record. It turns the series from the world we make to the world we discover: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from The Sky Above Us through The Living Earth, The Invisible World, Pattern & Proof, and The Body & the Brain, closing with The Method & the Frontier. Each card is built around a single discovery, instrument, or question and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, fami...

Art & Music is the third volume in The Human Record. It moves the series from the world's past into the world we make: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from First Images & First Songs through The Sacred Arts, Masters, Makers & Patrons, The Performing World, and Breaking the Frame, closing with The Modern Eye & Ear. Each card is built around a single work, maker, or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, families, clas...

People & Society is the sixth and final volume in The Human Record. It turns from the words and ideas we think with to the lives we actually share: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from Kinship & Custom through Work & the Marketplace, Law & Judgment, Power & the State, and Movements & Change, closing with The City & the Commons. Each card is built around a single institution, struggle, or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made fo...

The New Novel from the author of Lie With Me‘Doomed youth, simmering desire and 100-proof nostalgia is what Besson does - and he does it very well . . . perfect reading for a heatwave . . . this novel made me nostalgic for the sultry summers I never had’ The Times‘This is a poignant, haunting beach read about loss of innocence, the precariousness of existence, and that painful period of adolescence when th...

Sawubona, a Zulu greeting, ‘I see you and welcome your presence.' A beautiful sentiment, the embodiment of paying attention, ‘I notice you. I am with you. You are not invisible.’ Inside this book are stories by writers who have done exactly that.They have opened their eyes and hearts to people, places, objects, joys, griefs and small acts of survival. Embraced what is broken, funny, tender, nearly invisible.No heroes in capes. No grand speeches. Just human beings on a share...

On an island off the coast of France, six teenagers come together for a summer of desire and discovery until one of them vanishes forever, leaving the rest with an enduring mystery.Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly?In the summer of 1985, on a scruffy resort island off the coast of France, six teenagers—five boys and one girl—band together for a final golden season before adulthood. Their days are drenche...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*FROM THE AUTHOR OF EAST WEST STREETAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and t...

History & Place is the second volume in The Human Record. It carries the structure readers know from Culture Générale into new ground: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from Origins & First Civilizations through Empires & Exchanges, Encounters & Upheavals, Revolutions & Industries, and Modern Crossroads, closing with an atlas of the places that made us. Each card is built around a single moment, figure, or place and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talk...

**An Immediate Bestseller | A Bloomberg Best Book of 2025'Philippe Collin is a magnificent storyteller. This novel fascinates at every turn.' ElleWhen the Ritz becomes the Nazis’ favourite spot, its Jewish bartender has no choice but to keep working.**Paris, 1940. Despite the Occupation, the prestigious Ritz Hotel has managed to remain open. Its bar becomes a favourite spot for Nazis eager for a taste of French refinement. Its celebrated barman, Frank Meier...

Surprises await a clever Black French Canadian teen when he's forced to attend high school in Austin, Texas, in this hilarious contemporary YA novel.William C. Morris YA Debut Award Winner!"A witty debut with whip-smart dialogue that will find much love among fans of authors like John Green and Jason Reynolds." — SLJ (starred review)Meet Norris Kaplan. As a Black French Canadian who has been recently plunked i...