Filled with the twists pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary ..

Only a generation or two ago illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a..

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April Captain Tom Moore 99-year-old Second World War..

In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

After World War II Sydney experienced a chillingly calculated crime wave thanks to discontent mixed ..

Every day Dr Rachel Clarke tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives...

Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

As Hitler’s bombs threatened London during World War Two eight-year-old David Merron was removed f..

How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly the so..

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unw..

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landsca..

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman Ian McMillan would be it. But he has been ..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

Setting out for a family day in Devon nine-year-old Keira Ball suffered catastrophic brain injuries ..

Czechoslovakia October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestig..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

There are almost one billion guns across the globe today. There are 12 billion bullets produced ever..

For two decades Robert Stone made his living on the high seas as a diver fisherman treasure-hunter -..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..

Kim Philby the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring was the Cold War's most infamous traito..

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso owls have captivated and inspi..

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

Meadowland gives a unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to Decembe..

When Helen Batten’s marriage breaks down she starts on a journey of discovery into her family’s ..

Few cricketers understand the rollercoaster of emotions that come with being part of an Ashes series..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created..

Tired of endless tarmac and keen to see more on his travels than the tail-lights of the car in front..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission deep behind ene..

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However Quicksand is not a book about death and de..

Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..

In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician ..

Andrey Kurkov's war diaries continue - a searing deeply human portrait of a nation reshaped by war. ..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

We take summer holidays for granted but back in the 1940s war had gripped Britain. Bombs fell beache..

In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..

Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? The human body is extraordinary and fascinat..

We all want to be successful in life and to be remembered for our achievements - but how can we do ..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the danger..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

Famous for his portrayal of the iconic hardman Grant Mitchell and as the maker of various documentar..

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife when c..

Can we resurrect dinosaurs Jurassic Park-style? Are we living in The Matrix's digital simulation? Do..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

Dublin November 1856. George Little the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus is found de..

For a doctor in Intensive Care intense emotion is part of the job. Fear in the eyes of a terminally ..

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

Lynda Bellingham died in her husband Michael's arms on 19th October 2014. Lynda touched many lives i..

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the h..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

Matt Baker is happiest on the farm. Away from the bright lights of hosting our favourite television ..

Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness ..

Charting his 15 years working as a GP Dr Amir Khan's stories are as much about community and care as..

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements buying fan..

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..

G. Kelly's pie and mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for nearly a hundre..

What's the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever ..

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

''Born and brought up in Suffolk Ronald Blythe produced an instant classic with Akenfield. Only a ma..

After getting shot down in the skies over France in the winter of 1939 airman Robert Bozdech stumble..

Emil Zátopek won five Olympic medals set 18 world records and went undefeated over 10000 metres for..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

In 1914 the world changed forever when World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to f..

Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia..

Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

The crime the criminals the victims and their families. And the biggest manhunt by British police.....

In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..

The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the rai..

The Bookseller at the End of the World described the first part of Ruth Shaw's tumultuous life touch..

The Second World War is dominated by heroic tales of men defending their country against a formidabl..

Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..

The SAS is staffed by the toughest and most resourceful soldiers in the world - only the cream of th..