Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. It’s our pick of the day.

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. It’s our pick of the day.
In At The Deep End is a deliciously disarming debut novel about a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love and pleasure in all the wrong places.
An American Dream is a moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple and Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.
Based on the history of a real reform school that warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great novelist.
The summer of 1984 was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. Glory Days showcases the year that sports went big-time.
There is often debate around who is the Greatest Basketballer of All Time. The reality is, it depends which numbers you look at. By The Numbers explains different ways to find the answer.
Wonders of Wimbledon is one of the Headliners series and takes a closer look through the media at the stars and other headline makers of the world’s greatest tennis tournament.
The Midlife Cyclist explores the growing trend of older cycling. Using contributions from leading coaches, ex-professionals and pro-team doctors, he produces the ultimate manifesto for mature riders.
Swimming is more than feats of aquatic endurance. Its history, in Splash!, offers a multi-tiered tour through religion, fashion, architecture, sanitation, colonialism, segregation, sexism, sexiness, guts and glory.
Ultramarathoning legend Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the shoe melting heat of Death Valley to the lung freezing cold of the South Pole. Read more in A Runner’s High.