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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...

An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man...


Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign...

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary...

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...

Chandler Cohen lies for a living.

When she accepts her next ghostwriting gig penning a memoir for cult actor Finnegan Walsh,...

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

- Why...

Guy Delisle's newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is...

One boy is on the run from an international conspiracy . . .

Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning...

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...

Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church...

Our story begins at the end of an investigation, as the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit race to catch a killer near...

It’s a fresh start for the Met's oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit.
Their first case involves two teenagers...

The river Thames is London’s most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide,...

The year is 1969 and ten guests are about to enjoy a country house weekend at Tavistock Hall. But one amongst them is harbouring...

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war.

It took a...

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,...

A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law...

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