“Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist.”
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance ★★★★
The Booker Prize 2020 Shortlist
The shortlist includes Real Life by Brandon Taylor; Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi; Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart; This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga; The New Wilderness by Diane Cook; and The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
A must read for anyone wanting to start a new habit!
The crux of the book is this: ‘Habits are the compound interest of personal development.’ When trying to build a new habit or develop a new skill, one often falls into the trap of thinking big.
Editors’ Top Picks of the Decade
Might be an odd mix of titles, but the Felix Books Editors present to you their top picks of the decade
My life with Michael: 10 Years of Thriller Live, Written by Gary Lloyd
Arts Editor Ozbil Ege Dumenci chips into the Books section for a week!
Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide”
Celeste Ng’s Debut Novel: Everything I Never Told You
Another masterpiece by Celeste Ng featuring a family drama surrounding the suspicious death of a young girl
Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere
Winner of the Goodreads choice awards 2017
A Review of Petals of Blood
A deeply empathetic story set in post-colonial Kenya
Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama
Editor-in-Chief, Andy Djaba, makes his Books Section debut to review a special evening full of gems with the former First Lady
The Ghost Map: dive into the 1854 London cholera outbreak
The setting of this book - a cholera outbreak in Victorian England revolving around cesspools contaminations - is not particularly the most attractive thing in the world, yet it’s fascinating to see the story behind how we came to understand that cholera is water-borne, how it established the base
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed: The guillotine of modern life?
From democratisation of justice to weapons of destruction, our voices create a stage for shaming at an unprecedentedly large scale