Hilary Mantel has won two Man-Booker awards and is tipped for a third with the release of The Mirror & The Light, the final book in her Wolf Hall trilogy.

Columnist and author Caitlin Moran’s new book More than a Woman tackles the challenges of middle age with the same passion and humour that endeared her to readers of her best-selling feminist memoir How to Be a Woman.

When Bryan Stevenson was 9-years-old his grandmother asked him to promise her that he would always do the right thing, no matter how hard. Now a lawyer and activist, Stevenson founded the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative 30-years-ago and has helped to get more than 140 people off death row.

C.K. Stead is a poet, novelist, critic, and activist. His first memoir South West of Eden covered the first 23 years of his life. His second called You Have a Lot to Lose spans the years 1956 to 1986 and covers the Springbok Tour, his travels and studies abroad, and his relationships with friends and foes.

One of the world's foremost primatologists Frans de Waal's research tells us much about what can animals teach us about ourselves when it comes to economic, social and political power structures.

What's it like to be the son-in law of a brilliant feminist lawyer and a high-flying civil servant, who was sensationally accused of being a spy in the 1970's?

Psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder has always been fascinated by the "nuggets of ancient wisdom" that are Māori whakataukī (traditional proverbs). Now she's written a book about them Aroha: Mā​ori Wisdom for a Contented Life Lived in Harmony with Our Planet.

Named as "one of the world's leading thinkers" by The Observer, and by Vogue as "one of the world's most inspiring women" Noreena Hertz new book is The Lonely Century - Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart.

In Flash Crash investigative journalist Liam Vaughan paints a detailed portrait of market trader Navinder Sarao who triggered the fastest stock market crash in history.