Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the 19th century, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and...
Children have a knack of asking great questions: Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why did dinosaurs go extinct and not other animals? What...
For 40 years Christopher Hitchens' essays have been an essential element of the literary life of America and the UK. 'Arguably' is the definitive selection...
In 1955, Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. After a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death, becoming...
Jonathan Dimbleby describes the political & strategic realities that lay behind the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, charting the nail-biting months that...
Roger Mortimer's sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching, always generous letters to his son are packed with anecdotes and sharp observations, with a...
Scots actor Bill Paterson was brought up in those halcyon days of post-war Britain when a child could still play happily and safely in his own back green...