My Name Is LeonA brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you'd least expect to find one. Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. They have gone to live with Maureen, who has fuzzy red hair like a halo, and a belly like Father Christmas. But the adults are speaking in low voices, and wearing pretend faces. They are threatening to give Jake to strangers, since Jake is white and Leon is not.

Julian recounts more inspirational tales from his life

Oceans apart

The exposé has put more than Adams' life in danger

It was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl interpreting for his captors

probing her life for answers to the question she has forever been trying to answer: Who Am I

elegant prose

it's perfect for Sally's honest and charming account of farming life

and how to imagine a future in a world that ended before she was born

The Norwegian Anne Tyler makes her English debut in a beautiful

This diary

But although feigning an American accent

Divination and more