Their vicious gamesEdgewater Academy is a school for the very rich and very powerful. Adina Walker is neither of those things. Alone and outcast, when she gets into a fight with a fellow student (and former friend), her scholarship to a top college is revoked, and her world falls apart. Until she's invited to The Finish. Annual games for the brightest and the best, hosted by power family the Remingtons, the winning prize for The Finish is everything Adina wants. This is

whose credits include Downton Abbey

has had to take herself off for a lie-down and there's no one to make sure the royal children stay neat and tidy for the big party

how to recognise top-quality meat

It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change

technology and race

you might enjoy this eclectic collection (or eclection) of David Mitchell's attempts to make light of all that darkness

and offers up the joy of self-acceptance through an extraordinary rite of passage

how they compete for food

and cannot remember many concrete details

Francis Fukuyama sets out the cases for and against its classical premises: observing the rule of law

memoir and cultural study

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth