Non-fiction
Escape Over the Himalayas
Maria Blumencron
“It was so hard to walk all the time. I was more afraid of the Chinese than I was of the snow and the wild animals. Together we fought our way over the tall mountains, the steep trails and the deep wa…
Everything That You Shouldn’t Know About Your Child’s Sexuality
Marcel Rufo
Our sex is our greatest defining factor. From the moment gender is discerned in the blurry images of the ultrasound, it can be the source of endless and sometimes extremely traumatic insecurities, com…
Beyond Fear
Guy Corneau
“Invariably, there comes a time in your life when everything goes wrong, when absolutely everything goes wrong.” Guy Corneau’s fascinating exploration into the nature of our relationship with the ‘sel…
The Sleeping Mountain
Alvaro Escobar Molina
In a mountain village of Colombia, a little child is learning about the world by watching his grandmother’s dry and wrinkled hands. He listens to the silences, to the tales of Madre Monte, and throws…
Healthy Living in 20 Rules and 100 Recipes
David Servan-Schreiber
Dr. David Servan-Schreiber’s ground-breaking international bestseller, Anticancer: A New Way of Life, showed how our lifestyle and especially the foods we eat are instrumental in fighting cancer. In H…
The Diary of Ma Yan
Ma Yan Pierre Haski
In a drought-stricken corner of rural China, an education can be the difference between a life of crushing poverty and the chance for a better future. But for Ma Yan, money is scarce, and the low wage…
The Gate
François Bizot
In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Fran?ois Bizot was taken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge, who kept him chained in a jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later, Bizot…
My Forbidden Face
Latifa
From 1997 to 2001, sixteen-year-old Latifa was a prisoner in her own home as the Taliban wreaked havoc on the lives of Afghan girls and women. This is her testimony – a young woman’s reaction to the i…
Picasso: My Grandfather
Marina Picasso
Marina Picasso, granddaughter of the twentieth century’s greatest painter, watched as those she loved most were destroyed by the man the world revered as a genius creator. Her grandmother, who sacrifi…
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
After suffering a massive stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French Elle and the father of two young children, found himself completely paralysed and speechless. Able only to move one ey…