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50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the...

The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world

On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's...

Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions.

Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed...

We have spent decades optimising our waking hours, but what about the precious hours after we doze off (or try to)? The Magic of...

Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly...

The life of Gandhi, in his own words

150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

'Generations to...

We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the...

The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her life

When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that...

Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song?
In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is...

From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of...

The hand of a stranger offered in solace. A flower placed on a dead body as a mark of respect. It is these moments of empathy...

A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul...

'All my life my Stradivarius had been waiting for me, as I had been waiting for her . . .'

At 7 years old Min Kym was a...

A series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And...

Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat

The Ten Commandments may...

In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating...

I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I...

Froome... , Walsh...

Growing up in Kenya, biking down mile after mile of dusty road, and staying in a humble tin hut, he developed a fierce passion...

Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we...

The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman

'There was no...

Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

'Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed...

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of...

Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The...

Hennessy... , Jinks...

'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about...

Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes

More people died in...

Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a...

The definitive biography of George VI, the hero of The King's Speech

George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the...

Milligan's Meaning of Life is a glorious celebration of the legendary Spike Milligan. Here you will find his most intimate and...

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals

Where is 'home'? For...