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

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is...

For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician,...

What was so dangerous about Queen Victoria's artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louise?

When Lucinda Hawksley started...

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out...

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...

Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.

All three happening together brings...

What's another branch on the family tree?

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

Three couples. One therapist's couch ...

Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now...

When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the...

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,...

D`Arcy... , Howard...

A rugby-mad boy. A huge game. And a chance for an epic win . . . or an epic fail!

Gordon D'Arcy is an ordinary boy, but he's...

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...

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old...

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...

From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's...

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in...

'Focusing' is a technique first developed 25 years ago by American psychologist and philosopher Eugene Gendlin. Hugely...

A comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle – the first anthology of its kind. The highly structured villanelle is a...

Stoddart... , Kingsley...

The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the popular...

A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers...

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of...

Florence’s world-famous Renaissance is brought to life in this anthology through the eyes of its most illustrious chroniclers....

Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...