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'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the...

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom:...

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

Why has...

Meikle... , Blyth...

In the 60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were Britain’s most notorious gangsters. With violence and intimidation they were the kings of...

Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men, Living on the Volcano and No Hunger in Paradise returns with his magnum opus on the...

"What's your dream, son?"

A six year-old boy, head bowed, mumbles the eternal answer: "Be a footballer… " Steadman Scott,...

'Policing is like this everywhere but not everywhere is Scilly'.
Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor, he has been a valuable member of...

In The Dirty Game, investigative reporter and BBC Panorama presenter Andrew Jennings, who has been heralded around the world for...

Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Best of Benn showcases his powers of original...

A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.

Unearthed is the story...

In her early twenties, Christie Watson was convinced she'd found her soulmate, in a glowing flash of light that turned out to be...

The malodorous horrors of Sports Day.
Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening.
Refereeing teenage relationship dramas.

This is...

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about...

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in south Wales and then south-east England. It...

Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of...

Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in in the eighteenth century? And more importantly,...

Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.

From...

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds....

A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape.

'An extraordinary, dreamlike...

Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London – a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection...

If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase...

Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but...

From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly...

How have feelings come to shape the world around us? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What might the future...

Collingwood Ingram, born in 1880, became known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession. As a young man, he travelled to Japan and...

Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north.

'We are...

The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.

Under the guiding...

An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged...

Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of...

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the...