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

It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language.
First, it vanishes from her parents' conversation at...

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...

London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb.
Out of the blue, she receives...

England, September 1939
Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of...

Molly has lived on the streets for nearly a decade. She has close friends but spends most of her nights sleeping rough in...

The first memory I have of you is all knickers and legs. You had flipped yourself into a handstand and couldn't get back down. We...

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...

How far would you go to keep a secret?

Alice has a perfect life – a great job, happy kids, a wonderful husband. Until he goes...

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

Just days before her sister plunged to her death, Jules ignored her call.

Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules...

The new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the smash-hit, number one bestselling debut, Never...

A body has been found on the fourth floor of Manchester's vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he is smiling.
...

'He said he didn't remember killing them…'

As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan...

What happens when 'I do' turns into 'I don't know'?

Jeannie always wanted to fall in love, and now she's finally got the...

Sometimes the cracks in your heart can be mended in unexpected ways . . .

If Lorna's learned one thing, it's that courage is...

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...

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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...

Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window....

In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that...

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the...

Thea and Isaac have always been friends, despite his constant jokes, despite her stubborn belief in time travel . . . despite the...

Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue.

Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often...

The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone.

Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using,...

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Why do:
· Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well?
· Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own?
· The...

It is the hottest August in living memory.

A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her...

'Isn't the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you...