Eyewear: 6 books

Bad Seed, the story of a young woman scientist who genetically engineers a health enhancing food, and her path from poverty to billionaire icon, is a riveting portrait of a complex, flawed woman set in the worlds of science, Silicon Valley, and contemporary culture. A literary work that encompasses...

Kate Noakes’ Cape Town poems command our imaginative attention with all the power that the crossroads and lawns, wastelands and landscapes of “fateful convergence” commanded hers, a visitor from a hemisphere away. Like the stargazers in her ‘Kruger Nocturne’, “scanning until our retinas gave...

A hauntingly poetic evocation of English surrealism meeting the Movement style - so empirical wit combines with vividly rendered dreamscapes. What makes Richard Lambert rare as a poet is the unshowy integrity which percolates through his poetics. While others camp things up, he keeps them calm...

This American debut is an impressive bridge across the Atlantic, fusing US avant-gardism and the British pastoral tradition.

This is a powerful and deeply moving novel chronicling the Syrian War through the eyes of 14 year old Adam who has Asperger Syndrome. It has been adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play.'I have the urge to paint, and I can already see the painting in my head… horrible and beautiful all at the same time.' A...

Democracy is becoming a toxic environment, rife with trolls, bots, fake news and computational propaganda. Why, and what can be done? In this highly-informative, engaging and readable book, Canada's leading pollster and data expert Nik Nanos gives an insider's look into the surprise outcomes...