'Have You Seen...?'

David Thomson

This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters. The result is probably the most enjo...

A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother

Janny Scott

Barack Obama has written extensively about his father in the bestselling Dreams from my Father (Canongate, 2008) but credited his mother for 'what is best in me'. Yet little is known about this fiercly indpendent, spirited woman who raised the man who would become the first biracial president of the Uni...