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It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for...

Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause...

Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets...

'At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United...

At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is...

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him...

Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text...

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had...

W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The...

An invitation to supper at Angela Hartnett's house is a real treat. Nestled in the heart of London's vibrant East End, you know...

Quick, easy veggie curries for everyday.

Need a tasty dinner in a hurry? Look no further than this mouth-watering collection...

From simple but brilliant burgers to feasts from around the world: the ultimate barbecue bible from one of Britain's best-loved...

Having lost more than 12 stone in the last five years, Tom knows from experience how important it is to motivate yourself to...

The Wombles is the first ever Wombles book and introduces the stern but kindly Great Uncle Bulgaria; Orinoco, who is particularly...

Here we are.
And we are living.
Isn't that amazing?
How we manage to be here at all.

Grace and Tippi don't like being...

'Once, and once only, there was a boy whose name was Fizzlebert.' Fizzlebert Stump lives in a circus and it's the great Circus of...

Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a...

King Albert-Horatio-Otto the Third
had SO many clothes it was simply absurd …

So when two seemingly well-meaning fabric...

'Once, and once only, there was a boy whose name was Fizzlebert.'

Fizzlebert Stump lives in a circus. But when the ringmaster...

The Catholic Church seems to be in serious crisis – disfigured by scandals, divided by theological, cultural and political...

One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is as relevant today...

One of the oldest cities in Europe, Porto is recognised the world over for its wonderful Port wine. Rising from the steep banks...

You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to...

At the scale of atoms and molecules, things quite often like to stick together. But these tiny interactions don't just matter at...

Alone on a remote mountaintop one dark night, a woman hears a mysterious voice.

Propelled by the memory and after years of...

For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with...

A fascinating look at extraterrestrial volcanoes in our Solar System.

The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the...

Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution...

For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal unravels the way our implicit or...

Written by a leading neuroscientist, Splitting tells the fascinating true story about headaches, and the secrets they reveal...