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Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying fancy kit and racking up...

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick...

In a small Polish village, Mala Kacenberg grew up in the comfort of her family. Until the Nazis arrived.

Her village was torn...

Captain, father, leader, a fearless ambassador for the causes he believes in and a world-class midfielder, Jordan Henderson is...

The former Prince of Wales has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he...

When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the...

Pearson English Active Readers present stories carefully written and graded across five levels for teachers of English who want...

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable...

As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it...

In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing...

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and...

Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of...

I propose to open my mind as wide as possible to allow my readers the first ever glimpse at South Central from my side of the...

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely...

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped...

Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan,...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Leading transplant...

‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game doesn’t always work like the...

Becoming Forrest is the incredible story of Englishman Rob Pope, a veterinarian who left his job in pursuit of a dream - to...

Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as...

Whilst serving in the Soviet army in 1973, Sergei Ovsiannikov was arrested and imprisoned for acts of disobedience under military...

The writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney set sail from the east coast of England bound for Iceland, propelled by a desire to...

A gloriously irreverent memoir from the frontline of old age - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author and legendary...

'My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we'd saved. And now here I am, training to be a...

Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal take on...

Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she...

There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then...

Catherine Cho's son was three months old when she and her husband left home to introduce him to their families.

Catherine...

The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. In Moondust, Andrew Smith set out to...