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Describing his collection of Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author’, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm...

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the...

'Over the years I've had some incredible finds, but the one that excites me the most is the next one.'

Drew Pritchard set...

The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his...

Brain: We left the oven on!
Me: No don't say that, I've not got time for this!
Brain: The house is probably on fire!
Me: Stop...

The Extra Mile is no ordinary sports memoir. But Kevin Sinfield is no ordinary sportsman. A one-club legend of Leeds Rhinos, who...

It was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife when England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the...

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by William Hill award-winning author...

In this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of...

Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards,...

The perfect gift for any music lover . . .

The Rock and Roll A Level is here to rescue the pop quiz from the grip of bores who...

May 1940: In the face of a lightning German advance, the British Army found themselves, stunned, broken, beaten, their backs...

Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the universe.

Perhaps the biggest...

The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music...

In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments she carefully...

Enlightenment Britain was ablaze with ambition and energy. Great writers like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson,...

Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then...

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much...

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls...

Agnew... , Tufnell...

Who played the best pranks on his fellow team-mates? Which member of the TMS team terrorised his teachers in the annual...

The definitive baking collection from the undisputed queen of cakes.
This stunning new edition brings together the best of Mary...

I was alive when I should have been dead. In another movie, I missed the sliding door and departed this wondrous life long ago....

Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of...

Eight tracks. Endless stories.

Allow yourself to be cast away in eight glorious decades of the most iconic show on radio. To...

Battling the most extreme winds Britain had seen in 100 years, days of torrential rain and the unrelenting hills of Western...

Lewkowicz... , Calvin...

One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit,...

A practical, inspiring roadmap for changing the conversation on social justice issues.

'Not all men'
'I don't see...

The radio war of 1939-45 is one of the great scientific battles in history.
This is the story of that war.

Relying on...

History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940....

The urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .

In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the...