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In Snooze, McGirr delves into the mysterious world of sleep: its many benefits, its stubborn elusiveness and what our brains get up to while we''re in bed. He takes readers on a tour through the odd sleep patterns of some of history''s greatest figures, including Plato and Homer, Shakespeare and Dickens, Florence Nightingale (who slept a great deal) and Thomas Edison (who hardly slept at all). He looks at the demise of sleep in our ever more fragmented world, and what that means for everyone from average sleepers to those with serious sleep disorders.

Vera has spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she''s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone - the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to? Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: smart, funny, dramatic and always surprising.

Art historian Noah Glass's swimming pool death brings home two adult children who are as shocked by the event as they are confused by the sculpture-theft for which their father is now main suspect. From the author of "A Guide To Berlin", of which "The Independent" said 'Jones' sensitivity to the vibrancy of things demonstrates a Nabokovian vividness'.

In The Story of Shit, Dutch biologist Midas Dekkers presents a personal, cultural, scientific, historical and environmental account of shit, from the digestive process and the fascinating workings of the gut, to the act of defecation and toilet etiquette. With irreverent humour and a compelling narrative style, Dekkers brings a refreshing, entertaining and illuminating perspective to a once-taboo subject.

Three interesting characters roam the abandoned city of Tel Aviv. Jerusalmy explores the meaning of their lives and their individual acts of resistance.

Autobiographical novel about the transformative power of literature. A young man in prison finds profound meaning in Shakespeare's Tempest.

The author takes in novels, travelogues, pop culture and recipes in this argument for curry having become reductively shorthand for South Asian identity, proposing that the popularity of a certain understanding of curry has limited the cultural and culinary imagination of the masses.

Takes readers on a quest to understand the clocks that tick inside us all, together with what time is and how we perceive it. Funny, surprising and insightful, this is the story of one man's effort to master his internal clocks, that blends scientific investigation with personal memoir.

At least thirty-seven per cent of male convicts and fifteen per cent of female convicts were tattooed by the time they arrived in the penal colonies, making Australians quite possibly the world''s most heavily tattooed English-speaking people of the nineteenth century. Each convict''s details, including their tattoos, were recorded when they disembarked, providing an extensive physical account of Australia''s convict men and women. Simon Barnard has meticulously combed through those records to reveal a rich pictorial history.

World War II continues, and Ada and her brother Jamie are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady Thorton - now along with Lady Thorton herself and her daughter Maggie. Life in the crowded cottage is tense enough, and then, quite suddenly, Ruth, a Jewish girl from Germany, moves in. A German? The occupants of the house are horrified. But other impacts of war are far more intrusive and frightening. As death creeps closer to their door, life and morality during wartime grow more complex.

Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world.

A hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience, by a writer with a brilliant ear for the Australian way with words.

Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room flat. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada''s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn''t waste a minute - she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Miss Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take in the two children. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan - and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie.