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He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on...

Lola has a cold and is feeling really ever so not well. So her big brother, Charlie, thinks of all sorts of ideas to try to cheer...

Gratton... , Ireland...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of...

1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant.

England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men...

Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth ?7 million.

She has...

Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen.

But six years after her last match, she watches a young British...

"'Carpe Jugulum,' read Agnes aloud. 'That's . . . well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means -'
'Go for the throat . . .'"...

The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.

They call...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

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...

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...