Memoir

Nona Fernandez’s clear-eyed memoir, Voyager, eschews sentimentality in the retelling of her mother’s life in Chile under the dictatorship of Pinochet

Before Mogwai, Braithwaite was a music-obsessed teenager in East Kilbride, who dreamed of sharing a stage with The Cure. Then one day that dream came true

A small boy is the sole survivor of a boat tragedy at sea when the refugees he is travelling with are lost. Omar El Akkad recounts his terrifying journey to the west, and the attitudes that have shaped his life ever since