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tells the extraordinary story of how a cluster of remote communities in the mountains of south east France saved thousands of people 鈥� men, women and especially children - from the concentration camps. In the midst of terrible darkness this place and these people somehow became a beacon of humanity.

When American seal hunter, Captain Amasa Delano, comes across a drifting slave ship he goes to the assistance of the Spanish crew. Only later does he discover that the slaves are actually in charge, having risen and killed their 鈥渙wner鈥� several days before.

The Empire of Necessity is an epic human story that criss-crosses the globe and offers a discomforting meditation on ideas of liberty and slavery.

His politics and personal life may be at odds with today鈥檚 political landscape, but is often referred to as the greatest prime minister we never had. Among his many achievements, he was responsible for driving through the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. He also enjoyed a rather unconventional private life.

Self-confessed Jenkins fan, tirelessly unearths Jenkins 鈥榳ell-rounded life鈥� in this biography, illustrating a career which spanned a half-century from Attlee to Tony Blair, from his Welsh coal mining background to forming the SDP. Campbell celebrates Jenkins warts and all depicting an inspirational and progressive, if at times somewhat self-indulgent man, who left an enduring mark on British society.

delves into her family history in Common People and re-defines the genre in the process. This very personal story - written in part as a tribute pilgrimage to her father who was dying of cancer - moves between the present and the past in an extraordinary series of journeys spanning two centuries across Britain and beyond.

Starting out as an arm chair traveller with very little material, Light soon finds herself embarking on a journey which uncovers the past about her own family - like the tragic story of Sarah, her great-grandmother who was born in a workhouse and died in an asylum - but also a much forgotten public history of the industrial revolution.

Following the sudden death of her father, 鈥檚 life is plunged into darkness. Macdonald, (a Cambridge Historian) and a keen falconer had flown birds of prey since the age of 11 but she had never been tempted to train the bloodthirsty and fierce goshawk. In the wake of her loss, Macdonald finds herself drawn to the mysterious creature and resolves to purchase a female whom she names Mabel.

Combining nature-writing with personal memoir and biography (Macdonald also weaves in a biography of the writer and his own disastrous attempt to train a goshawk) this is ultimately an account of a woman dealing with grief, by putting herself in the wild mind of a hawk in order to understand what it means to be human.

In The Iceberg, artist 鈥� gives an unflinching account of family life under siege after her husband, art critic Tom Lubbock, is diagnosed with a brain tumour. Lubbock鈥檚 tumour was located in the area of the brain that dictated speech and language and at the same time as holes in his speech started to appear, their 18-month-old son Ev grappled with the joys of learning new words on a daily basis. Remarkably, Lubbock was able to continue his journalism even as words began to drop away.

Written in the present tense Coutts opens up a harrowing and relentless world of hospital visits, operations and the trials of caring for an 18-month-old child alongside a dying husband, but that is ultimately filled with laughter, love and dignity, for all the family.