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Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old...

Callum is a nought - an inferior white citizen in a society controlled by the black Crosses.

Sephy is a Cross - and the...

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet...

If you pitched a movie about a recently-widowed woman in her seventies who reconnects with a man she dated in college, leading to...

Malachy Tallack has been passionate about fishing since he was young.

Growing up in Shetland, with its myriad lochs, he and...

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are...

I believe every word you say. That was always my mistake.

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her old...

Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing...

Leadenhall Street, London, 1754....

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more...

"My name is Yip Tolroy & I am a mute. I have made not a sound since the day of my birth, October 2nd, 1815. I will say that my...

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery...

Ronke, Simi, Boo are three mixed-race friends living in London.
They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English.
Not...

This is the story of a landmark RSPB project to restore over 3,000 hectares of the Lake District, from the tiniest wildflowers up...

Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary.

Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological problems, and his step-father's...

Vienna at the dawn of the 20th century. An opulent, extravagant city teeming with art, music and radical ideas. A place where the...

It's 1936, war is brewing, tempers are running high, and by his thirteenth birthday, Sheldon Horowitz has been orphaned - twice....

Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, Help Yourself, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our...

I look at the Ryeland ewes, white and fat with fecundity. Replete with contentment.

Contentment is a transmissible condition....

The Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been...

From her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, from the rugged shores of New...

Brixton 1981. Sixteen year-old Michael is already on the wrong side of the law. In in his community, where job opportunities are...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the...

To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork – a great clanging monster of a...

"I adore the fox for its magnificence; I hate the fox for killing my chickens.
To love and loathe the fox is a British...

For Rich, life is golden.
He fizzes with happiness and love.
But Rich has an incurable brain tumour.

When Rich dies, he...

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object....

'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.'

The oak is our most...

"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."

Skylarks are the heralds of our...

From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons who occupied it, to the Tudors who traded its wool, to the Land...

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has...