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Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who...

Life on the remote island of Papavray in the 1970s was a world away from Mary J. MacLeod's urban existence in the south of...

At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is...

Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period....

Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled...

Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a...

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of...

The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon...

A love affair born in rural Ireland! Two mismatched lovers, locked in a relationship that will change both of them . . ....

A young woman comes of age in the shadow of her family's tragic past

When Beth Crowe starts university, she is shadowed by the...

What's another branch on the family tree?

Things are finally looking up for Anna. Seventeen miserable years of marriage to...

The Irish do death differently.

Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring...

A girl covered in blood. A missing man. A cryptic fairy tale.

Detective Laura Shaw seems to have it all: a supportive husband,...

I felt like I was living in a world teetering on the brink ...

Life as a stay-in-bed husband turned out to be a lot more...

How well do you know the life of one of Britain's great maritime heroes?

Discover the truth behind a man who remains a...

Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and...

Rabelais... , Гюго...

In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...

Duvan... , Anonymous

Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the...

Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary...

In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring...

The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary – the Efficient Baxter – and the...

Sir Buckstone Abbot owns what is possibly the ugliest stately home in England, and he is naturally eager to dispose of it to an...

J. Wellington Gedge seems to have everything a man could desire: a rich wife, a chateau, a life of ease in the south of France....

Monty Bodkin's pursuit of Gertude Butterwick is temporarily interrupted by his encounter with silver-screen siren Miss Lotus...

Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that...

Hugh McIlvanney is a living legend in sports journalism. A regular winner of the fiercely contested UK Sports Writer of the Year...

When a Life is Destroyed by Tragedy, Can Love Win Through?

On the very day Helen Wilson plans to choose her wedding dress, a...

Davies... , Heminsley...

Sara Davies is the queen of crafts. Whilst working as an intern in a small company, Sara noticed a gap in the industry and...

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists?

Told from the inside out, this is a harrowing, humorous and...

Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others fade away?
How do you break up with a friend?
How many 'best' friends...