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The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic,...

Why is blood red? Why are carrots orange? Who invented the lightbulb? Why is the world 'going green'? Is the sky really blue? And...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

Barker... , Edworthy...

Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker's coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protegee to a junior championship in France, alone, with...

Bob Bloomfield is, in the words of his best friend's wife, a 'selfish, arrogant a sehole', who hasn't spent a great deal of time...

Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there...

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'

Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be...

In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:

- Why...

Joe Sacco is renowned for his non-fiction books of comics journalism like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde and Footnotes in Gaza. Now...

Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. For...

They've been given just one week to find a killer they'd caught once before . . .
Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar...

As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its...

The defenestration of a ruthless theatre impresario's young son was definitely not the best way to end the play's first night...

Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of...

Lynda drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast.

CCTV watches her arrive, but never sees her leave.

She is...

Nobody sees and understands woodland better than Ray Mears.

With deep natural history knowledge and practical woodcraft...

The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail

British Rail wasn't how we're...

It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting,...

As a teenager, Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. For four years he devoted himself to the game of golf. And then, one day, he...

To win the climate war, you first need to win the climate argument.

For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers...

Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life.

'An autobiography is a book a person writes...

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945,...

Nathan Anthony, the home cook with over 3 million followers, shares delicious and easy home-style recipes that can all be made in...

Whether you're an air fryer fanatic or new to these time- and money-saving appliances, hugely popular healthy-eating platform,...

Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and...

In Africa only the strong survive.

Teenage martial arts expert Connor Reeves is tasked with protecting a foreign ambassador's...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence....

The dazzling vampire Lestat was once the epitome of evil. But now he struggles with his immortality, yearning for a more saintly...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate...