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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...

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...

Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory...

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 -...

If you are reading this, it's likely you already have some affinity with humanism, even if you don't think of yourself in those...

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...

The authoratitive text

'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...

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin

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

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...

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...

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

Agnew... , Tufnell...

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

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,...

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

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