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Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in...

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk...

We're constantly told the same things about the monarchy:

But the monarchy is good for tourism..
It isn't! Evidence points...

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her...

It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird

The bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's...

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When...

A social history of 1980s Britain, told through the sport of the time.

Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the...

In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental...

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family...

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess...

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what...

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

Our early years at home are when we lay down the blueprint for being a partner, parent, sibling, friend, colleague, neighbour,...

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot

Small...

Now adapted as the Netflix documentary Skandal!, this is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the...

A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering...

Since its foundation in 1948, the NHS has come to define our national identity; it even topped the "what makes Britain great"...

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are...

Everybody thinks they know what sheep are like: they're stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're...

In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression....

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet -...

We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the...

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'There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all'

Both a...

Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to...

A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestselling master of storytelling.

In this engaging book, the internationally...

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man...

TV and radio money-agony-aunt Claer Barrett is the voice of reason in the cost of living crisis, teaching us what we need to know...