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"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...

A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel.

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced...

A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it...

A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel.

Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be...

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.
Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started...

'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great...

'What is wrong with you?'

Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some...

A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel

They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That mastering it is a...

A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel

In this and indeed other lives there are givers and takers. It's...

Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But...