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The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual...

At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage...

In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive...

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his...

Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?

An essential memoir about building life on your own terms

When...

We are not OK...

I've been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last decade of making documentaries -...

If your partner doesn't answer a text quickly, do you become anxious? Do you check up on your partner online to know their every...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil...

When waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to...

Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in...

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and...

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'

The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more...

Travel through time to the land of the dinosaurs! Foreword by Chris Packham.

Climb aboard the time machine and join adventurer...

Lia is off on an adventure, and she'd like a pet to take with her.
In another corner of the meadow is Lion - who is also looking...

The first-ever picture book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker.

This is the hilarious (and admittedly a tiny bit gross) tale of...

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

An exciting new publication in celebration of the centenary of his birth, a recently discovered funny and poignant animal story...

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life.

One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for...

Is it ever too late to rewrite the past?
When Lina and Ash were at school, they buried a time capsule containing letters about...

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent...

A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud...

The first girl came back.
The next might not be so lucky...

A girl is taken from the streets of Oxford. But it's unlike any...

Blood is thicker than water . . . and murder is best kept in the family

At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the...

A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been...

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies,...

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been...