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Over £1 out of every £8 of UK retail sales is spent at Tesco and its share is continuing to rise. The inexorable rise and power of supermarkets is big news but not good news according to ANDREW SIMMS, Director of the New Economics Foundation. In his new book, which he admits is one-sided, he describes how the supermarkets have re-arranged our landscape, created a new kind of shopping dependency and re-engineered our local economies, its so called ‘low prices’ driving low pay, long hours and the casualisation of the workforce all along the supply chain, creating shelves full of global plunder. Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters is published by Constable & Robinson.

BAMBER GASCOIGNE is famous for having presented University Challenge for twenty-five years, until 1987. General knowledge is still his chosen specialist subject as he has spent the years since presenting history series, writing books and devising a website called HistoryWorld. Now he has devised a new search engine, called TimeSearch, which is a new and more focused kind of search engine, using timelines as the platform from which users search for information and images on the internet. He talks about the need to challenge the monopoly of Google and the significance of the internet's breathtaking expansion.

In the 1970s, seven elderly women were raped and murdered in Columbus, Georgia. The victims were affluent and white and the police believed from an early stage that the killer was black. Eight years after the last murder, an African-American, Carlton Gary, was convicted and sentenced to death. He is still on death row. Award-winning reporter DAVID ROSE has followed this case for almost a decade and he talks about how he uncovered important fresh evidence that was hidden from Gary's trial, evidence which suggests that he is innocent. He also demonstrates how this series of egregious crimes provoked a resurgence of ancient hatreds that Americans sometimes pretend belong to the past, resulting in a miscarriage of justice. Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South is published by HarperPress.

Eva Braun was 33 when she swallowed a cyanide capsule and died beside the man she loved in a bunker. What made a shy, modest woman like Eva remain with a man like Hitler for so many years and what really went on behind closed doors? The critically-acclaimed novelist ANGELA LAMBERT sets out to tell us just who Eva was. Over seven hundred biographies have been written about Hitler but Angela’s is only the second about Eva. She talks about Eva’s life as Hitler’s mistress, his refusal to acknowledge her publicly, what kept him faithful to her and what it was like for her to be part of the Nazi inner circle. The Lost Life of Eva Braun is published by Arrow Books.