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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without...

According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many...

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Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in...

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Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

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Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

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Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he...

The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do...

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In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others...

Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force...

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the...

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe...

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