An extract from Time Warped, by Claudia Hammond

Have you ever tried to spend a day without looking at a clock or checking your watch? It’s almost impossible. Time rules our lives, but how much do we understand about it? And is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it?

Richard King on How Soon is Now?

Richard King’s How Soon Is Now? is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the backbone of the independent music industry and the hugely inspirational, eccentric, impulsive and visionary figures who created them.

In the Shadow of the Titanic

Shadow of the Titanic, by Andrew Wilson, sheds new light on this enduringly fascinating story by showing how the disaster continued to shape the lives of a cross-section of passengers who escaped the sinking ship.

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?

Well, are you?

Read an extract from William Poundstone’s mind-numbing tome, and gain an insight into Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World’s Top Companies!

Sandstorm podcast

The inside story of Gaddafi’s regime from the award-winning Channel 4 and CNN journalist, Lindsey Hilsum.

Double Cross

Ben Macintyre, author of Double Cross on The True Story of The D-Day Spies… their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo….

Nine Strange Ways The World Could End…

Celebrate the year of the Mayan Apocalypse in style with Megacatastrophes!, as Dr David Darling and Dr Dirk Schulze-Makuch delve into the amazing science of the end of the world.

An extract from So You Want To Be Captain?

A captain has many responsibilities and can make or break a team. Success is always sweet, but when it all goes wrong it can be a lonely and stressful job, especially if you are quite young. So who can you go to for help? So You Want To Be Captain? is the answer.

A Bizarre But True Tale of Androids, Kill Switches, and Left Luggage

Read an extract from Losing the Head of Philip K. Dick, by David Duffy for a chance to win one of five copies, courtesy of One World Publications.

An extract from Phoenix from the Ashes

After a fire destroyed their house, Justin and his wife Linda irrationally decided to build a 15-ton classic yacht, as complete amateurs – starting with the trees…

No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan

In this powerful and shocking exposé from the front lines in Helmand province, leading journalist and documentary-maker Ben Anderson (HBO, Panorama, and Dispatches) shows just how bad it has got…

An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent…

Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent of Antarctica.

Wilful Blindness Podcast

Margaret Heffernan has written an engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth…

Journey to the Dark Heart of Russia with Jermey Poolman

The Road of Bones is the story of Russia’s greatest road – the Vladimirka Road . In pursuit of the sights, sounds and voices both past and present, Jeremy Poolman travels the Vladimirka – the first person to tell its rich, varied and dark story. Read an extract.

Keeping Up with the Germans…

Keeping Up with the Germans interweaves memoir and history to look at ten historical encounters between English and German people from the last 200 years.

Listen to an interview with the author, Philip Oltermann.

The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask for One!’ Podcast

Stewart Lee’s new book is based on just one stand-up show, in which Stewart Lee examines the mechanics of comedy and the stand-up’s craft, as he explains in this interview with comedy critic and Resonance FM DJ Ben Thompson.

Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past

Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is… its past?

An extract from Simon Reynolds’ Retromania, out this month in paperback via Faber.

An extract from Cairo

Read an extract of Cairo, Ahdaf Soueif’s account of the revolution and a personal journey into the city of her childhood.

Solar System: The Book of the App

Solar System has been downloaded about 80,000 times in 10 months. It won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year as well as Best App of 2011. But, if you were not lucky enough to have an iPad, you were stuck. Not any more.

Joseph Galliano on putting Dear Me together

The original UK edition took three months to compile, an Irish edition took two months, but the American version of the book (released in the UK as Dear Me, More Letters To My Sixteen Year Old Self) was an altogether more marathon task…

Galaxy National Book Awards 2011: More4 Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year

The latest in a series of showcases featuring extracts from the shortlists and winners of the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011. The winners will now compete for the Galaxy Book of the Year. The public can vote for their favourite and the winner will be announced on 21 December.

An extract from Henry’s Demons

Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story.

On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry waded into the lethally cold Newhaven estuary and almost drowned. The trees, he said, had told him to do it.