A daily companion presenting 366 short, standalone entries on women and girls from around the world and across history. Each day highlights a person, moment, or movement—from well-known figures to overlooked pioneers—and includes quotes, poems and illustrations, making it easy to dip in for inspiration and learning.

Vanished traces how the modern idea of extinction emerged in the late eighteenth century—as scientists interpreted fossils such as mammoth remains—and replaced earlier beliefs in unchanging creation. Sadiah Qureshi argues extinction is not only an evolutionary phenomenon but also a political concept that has been used to justify colonial violence and to shape how societies understand and respond to species loss. Drawing on archival research and narrative history, the book links scientific discovery, empire, and ethics to show how disappearances of species reflect human choices as well as natural processes.

Masud Husain uses seven patient case studies to explore how brain functions—perception, attention, memory, motivation and empathy—shape our sense of self. The book explains how disruptions to these functions can alter personality and behaviour, and how modern neuroscience helps us understand and sometimes treat those changes. It’s an accessible, human-centred account of how the brain creates identity.

Proto traces the origins and spread of Proto-Indo-European, a language born after the last ice age near the Black Sea, and how its speakers dispersed across Eurasia. Combining linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence, the book follows migrations and cultural encounters that gave rise to today’s largest language family and considers what that deep history reveals about language and human movement.

A concise, spoiler-free account of the seventy-year rise of nuclear physics, beginning with Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity and following scientists such as Ernest Rutherford, Enrico Fermi, Irène Joliot-Curie, and Edward Teller. Frank Close traces how curiosity-driven experiments unlocked the atom and led to both transformative technologies and the creation of atomic and hydrogen weapons, while examining the scientific, moral, and political questions that followed.

Lugma is a cookbook of more than 100 recipes from Noor Murad inspired by her Bahraini upbringing and the wider Middle East and South Asia. The title—meaning “a bite”—reflects a focus on bold, herb‑forward, sour and spiced flavours across salads, rice dishes, slow‑cooked meats and desserts. Recipes blend Gulf, Iranian, Indian and Levantine influences into approachable, home‑cookable dishes meant to evoke warmth and shared meals.

Roopa Gulati travels across India to capture the flavours of regional, home-style cooking and presents over 100 accessible, vibrant recipes for everyday meals and special occasions. The book focuses on authentic, ingredient-driven dishes you can recreate with supermarket staples—ranging from dals and tikkis to coastal fish curries and rich lamb dishes—while evoking the tastes and traditions of kitchens from Kerala to Gujarat and Bengal to Pondicherry.

Helen Goh, a pastry chef and longtime recipe developer with Ottolenghi, presents 100+ sweet and savory recipes rooted in her Malaysian and Australian upbringing and her experience with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavors. The book combines approachable, inventive bakes—cakes, cookies, bars, and savory galettes and focaccia—with personal reflections on how baking creates connection and meaning in everyday life.

In The Once and Future Riot, Joe Sacco investigates the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh, India, by interviewing officials, community leaders, and victims. Through immersive visual reportage he traces how rumors, competing narratives, crowd dynamics, and political maneuvering combine to produce and justify sectarian violence. The book uses this specific riot as an archetype for understanding how communal conflict can erupt and be remembered in fragile multiethnic societies.

Urfi, a cat-witch, conjures an angel to bear her children but flees his violence, carrying the embryonic egg of their unborn offspring into a faery forest. She raises her daughters—Isobel, Batzel, and Mazel—only to have the dangers tied to the angels resurface. The three must rely on secret magic, sisterhood, and friendship to protect one another in this dark, lyrical fairytale about motherhood, survival, and love.

Milk White Steed is a collection of ten stories about people from the West Indies adjusting to life in England. Blending Caribbean folklore, dreamlike surrealism, and everyday struggles, the book explores longing, memory, and the search for home without revealing key plot details.

Misery of Love follows Clare as dreamlike memories surface while she spends time with family at her grandfather’s funeral. Through shifting narratives and stormy grayscale imagery, the graphic novel examines race, memory and the lingering impact of France’s colonial past in Africa—without revealing key plot developments.

Set in 1991, Raised by Ghosts follows teenage Briana as she moves from lonely middle school lunches to the tentative friendships of high school while coping with divorced, emotionally distant parents. Told through first‑person class notes and diary entries, the semi‑autobiographical story explores her search for belonging, self‑worth, and authenticity, emphasizing quiet, everyday moments and small acts of connection.

Set in a quaint rural town, the story follows a group of spirited children who form a secret club to protect their community from a series of mysterious events. As they embark on thrilling adventures, the young bandits learn valuable lessons about friendship, courage, and the importance of standing up for what is right. Their journey is filled with humor, suspense, and heartwarming moments that highlight the power of teamwork and the innocence of childhood.

The River Has Roots is a 2025 novella by Amal El-Mohtar. The book marks El-Mohtar's standalone authorial debut; she previously coauthored the 2019 novella This is How You Lose the Time War with Max Gladstone.

"Source Code" offers a personal glimpse into the life of Bill Gates, exploring the experiences and influences that shaped him into a pivotal figure in technology and philanthropy. The book delves into his childhood, highlighting the impact of his family, friendships, and early encounters with computers. It chronicles his journey from a curious teenager sneaking into a computer center to a college student who ignited a technological revolution. Through Gates' own narrative, readers gain insight into the personal challenges and passions that fueled his remarkable career and contributions to society.

After months overseas, covert operative Scot Harvath returns to a changed Washington and a brewing power struggle. As he uncovers a conspiracy by hidden influencers vying for control of the country, Harvath must navigate shifting loyalties and dangerous politics. With enemies on all sides and the nation’s future at stake, he’s forced to make perilous choices that could cost him everything.

In Regency England, twins Lady Augusta (Gus) and Julia Colebrook, often overlooked as “old maids,” secretly use their wits to protect women and children failed by the law. When Gus’s friend Lord Evan asks them to hide his sister from a vengeful brother, they are drawn into clearing his name for a decades-old murder. To find the truth, they must outsmart thieftakers and navigate London’s shadowy clubs and spy networks—risking their safety, reputations, and a fragile new romance.

A collection of gritty, darkly comic short stories that probe modern masculinity, love and sexual obsession among working‑class Scots, mixing raw, vernacular dialogue with scenes of violence, addiction and tenderness; the linked tales explore infidelity, desire, identity and the messy, often destructive consequences of intimacy, balancing bleak realism with black humour and occasional poignancy.

In The Sirens' Call, Chris Hayes examines how digital platforms have turned human attention into a commodity, reshaping our habits, relationships, and political life. He traces how constant notifications and algorithmic design exploit our impulses, erode boundaries between public and private, and produce social and democratic harm. Hayes offers a big-picture framework for understanding these changes and argues for ways to reclaim focus and agency.

Marnie Sellick takes a job at the coveted beauty brand rytuał and is drawn into the glamorous world of its charismatic founder, Luna Peters. As she grows closer to Luna and the all-female staff, Marnie becomes entangled in the brand’s seductive, cult-like culture and must confront how far she’ll go for belonging, beauty, and identity.

In Vienna in 1911 Gustav Klimt finds a woman's body in the Danube canal and, while sketching her, she coughs and proves alive. Back at his studio Klimt and his model Wally tend the nearly feral woman who cannot remember who she is, and he names her Judith. She recalls being stranded in the Arctic a century earlier, locked in a crate by Victor Frankenstein and visiting the Underworld. Many people pursue her, including Geoff, a giant croissant eating devil dog of the North.

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.A LITERARY HUB AND ELECTRIC LIT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEARIn this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, and diaries, brilliantly translated by Maya West and e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris.A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the earth turns on its axis.In a poem written at eight years old, Han Kang imagined a “gold thread” of connection—an idea which she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Lecture. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language into the depths of other hearts, and her profound sense of an electric current which joins writer and reader.Both intimate and illuminating, Light and Thread is a book for all readers of Han Kang’s unique body of work.