Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope

If Barack Obama becomes President of the United States, he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world. In this bestselling book, Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, and how the ideals of its democracy can be renewed. A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a sceptic, Barack Obama has written a book that will inspire people the world over.

'Obama's talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope. Someday it may even help him get elected president' ­Washington Post

Matt Frei
Only in America

When Matt Frei arrived in America as the BBC's Washington correspondent in 2002 he thought he had made a terrible mistake. He was confronted with the task of explaining the contradictions of a nation embodied in its capital, with a reluctant family in tow. Observing American politics from within the Washington Beltway, Matt Frei brings to the capital of the most powerful nation on earth his trademark wit and vivid reporting in the tradition of Bryson and Cooke - a wonderfully entertaining dissection of the most powerful nation on earth.

What is it like to grow up in Kenya in the 1950s with lions and giraffe roaming in the garden? To be a child in a household where no one spoke at mealtimes, to be left alone and bewildered at boarding school at the age of eight, and to find your father had been replaced by a new one when you came home one holiday? These are just some of the memories from Pattie Boyd's extraordinary childhood. She went on to become an icon of the Sixties: a top model, a Beatle wife, an acclaimed photographer, Eric Clapton's wife and the inspiration for some of the most beautiful love songs ever written - including the timeless Layla and Wonderful Tonight.