Enlightenment NowOne of the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront us. Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking

Irish navvies

Too late she realises they are not her friends

He spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp

'It was an absolute privilege to play against Sam

psychopathic golems and a particularly cranky cat

Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth's most remote regions - and across decades of lived experience

competed in more races than Jenson Button and set the largest number of fastest laps ever

'The Roasting Tin' is a deliciously simple concept: fresh

the desperate lows and astonishing highs

These stories may not make headlines but they will change the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary ways

and unrepentant

how you have lived and what you stand to lose