My Name is Leon (Shortlisted, 2016 Costa First Novel Award)

My Name is Leon is Kit de Waal’s first published novel. Her short fiction has achieved success in the Bridport, Costa and Bath short story awards. A long career working with children in care made the subject matter a natural choice. Carol has given birth to a baby brother for Leon. Baby Jake is white Read More

The Invention of Nature (Winner of the 2015 Costa Biography Award)

In her grand work, The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf sets out to restore Alexander von Humboldt (b. 1769) to his rightful place in the pantheon of scientific greats.  By introducing  the worldview that “nature is a living whole”, a “web of life”, and that man – through deforestation, farming and industrial practices – was Read More