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It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam.

Alan, a...

Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of....

In the 1520s a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus developed a revolutionary theory which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at...

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for...

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969.

On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of...

New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky.

Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far...

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's...

Sisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford, their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish...

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family...

A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has...

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. During questioning, she tells the police that she is a member of a secret...

Faerie is never as far away as you think.

Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you...

Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5

This is vintage Vonnegut -...

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

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

Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House on Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a young girl growing up in...

A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is...

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

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

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

'Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live and go to school and play and sleep - sometimes with...

'Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge, fabulous apartments and go to exclusive...

There has been a terrible mistake. Instead of having thirty classrooms side by side, Wayside School is thirty storeys high! (The...

Welcome back to a new year at Wayside School – where things are as strange and eccentric as ever.

There are twenty-nine kids...

When a substitute teacher is called to stand in for Mrs Jewls, it can mean only one thing - strange things are going to happen at...

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

So when two seemingly well-meaning fabric...

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