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Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a...

An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day...

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist

China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies,...

Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant cliches of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the...

The definitive, chilling account of Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and the first book to document the entire conflict, from...

A radical examination of Britain's relationship with the land by one of our greatest nature writers.

The British love their...

From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and...

Vigna Paul, Casey...

1988 saw the birth of the internet. 2008 gave us bitcoin. Today, cybercurrencies are changing the world we live in. What would a...

Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time.

A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy...

In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London...

The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the...

From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last...

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her...

Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?

But what's fascinating about pop...

It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the...

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes,...

Are you ready to be your best self at work?

Packed with advice, tips and decades of business experience from Mary Portas, this...

How does our diet affect our skin? What makes the skin age? And why can't we tickle ourselves?

Providing a cover for our...

Polson... , Scott...

What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us?

Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and...

What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? What becomes of the things we leave...

Would you let an algorithm determine your fate? Hannah Fry lifts the lid on the world of algorithms, examining how they impact...

With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds...

Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her...

You don't have to be a dedicated birdwatcher to be a bird lover. Millions of us love the sight and sound of them. And yet most of...

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative,...

Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and...

The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges,...

The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt Pepper'; The Beatles didn't just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An...

As heard on BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keveny, BBC Radio 5 Live and Talk Radio with Eamonn Holmes

The age of the rock star, like...

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see...