Harvey Watts

The Traveller: the revolutionary life of George Forster and his search for humanity

If you like biography and history and a meaty read, this may well be a summer treat for you. Traveller, naturalist, philosopher and revolutionary, George Forster is the visionary of his era that you may well never even have heard of.

Upward Bound

It is no surprise that this is such an insightful book. The author Woody Brown has lived or sat alongside most of what he writes about here, with such eloquence and feeling. He is the first nonspeaking autistic graduate of UCLA, where he received top writing honours in English, and this is his first novel, drawing compellingly on his own experiences and empathic perceptions.

Sonny: love with no limit

A compassionate, unexpectedly comic and deeply thought-provoking book about life with Sonny, a young lad with multiple disabilities that leave him unable to move, or breathe or eat or, perhaps, even understand at the most basic level the world around him. This is his story and the story of his amazing parents and siblings, who hold him at the heart of their extraordinary family.