Now a major motion picture starring Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and Meryl Streep.Recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time, Lit...
Meetings allow us to bring people together to inspire each other, solve problems and make a difference.Yet, we all spend too much time in dull, frustrating meetings where little is achi...
'One of the greatest comebacks ever. Not just in sport.' TelegraphFrom weighing twenty-eight stone and fighting a deep depression, to his amazing return to heavyweight champion of the w...
When I see an Alfa Romeo, I lift my hat. Henry FordFew things ignite such reverence as a classic car. With more than 250 iconic models from the 1940s to the 1980s, photographed from eve...
Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazificat...
For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa a...
In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood ab...
Fêted for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal moment in the history of modern art in Britain. Many banded together to form the British Surrealist Group...
A deadly venom. A ruthless terrorist. A billionaire's terrifying final wish . . .Answering a research ship's distress call in the Timor Sea, Juan Cabrillo's Oregon finds the crew unable...
The Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much...
From Katie Cotugno and author of Sex and the City Candace Bushnell comes this fierce and feisty exploration of feminism: standing up, speaking out and rewriting the rules.Don’t be...
Humans create data with nearly everything we do. This world of information is invisible, but it shapes society in profound ways. In Atlas of the Invisible, award-winning geographer-desi...
From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of T...
Breathtaking ...The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled Andrew Johnson, Independent Written when Truman Capote was...
In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria (‘wolf dens’ or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his ...
Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, returns with Forever Ends on Friday, another charming and powerful YA contemporary novel with a twist.What if you could bring your best...
Escape to Moominvalley with The Moomin Colouring Book.This stylish, unique and relaxing colouring book features original artwork from the coveted archive of Tove Jansson, creator ...
February 1574 and London is in a fervour of paranoia, superstition and rumour. Mob violence is commonplace. A whispered word is all it takes to condemn a woman to burn as a witch.Having...
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and ...
Kittie Lacey is the best hairdresser in all of Fairyland . . .A brave, stylish heroine for whom no tangle is too troublesome and no frizz to fearsome!The Beast's heart is melted b...