The Violet Hour : An utterly gripping story of love, art, ambition and lies by James Cahill

The Violet Hour : An utterly gripping story of love, art, ambition and lies by James Cahill'An enthrallingly intricate novel . . . impressive'GUARDIAN'There's something of F. Scott Fitzgerald about the way Cahill writes about the very rich'DAILY MAIL'A biting satire of the art world's glamour, pomp and greed . . . lucid and evocative'DAILY TELEGRAPH'A highbrow whodunnit, and grippingly so, but it's much more than that'PATRICK GALE, author of Mother's Boy'As sensuous and glimmering as it is dark and unsettling . . . a novel to get sucked

It could also be civilization-ending Jain tech – or something far more extraordinary

Sven Beckert’s Capitalism is a dazzling global history of the forces that have shaped – and continue to shape – our world

Roxanne sings out her grandfather's story of music and hope

one Edie is not certain she should keep

Packed with hundreds of brilliant snippets of information

he didn't want to know about it

Life is lived with feeling - and these poems will bring you reassurance

and inventor and engineer Ada Lovelace

but being unable to type or to hold a pen

chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth

Philip Bosinney

The poems are organised by theme