A Compendium of Curious ContraptionsGuess what some of the most unusual objects from history were used for in this book by archaeologist Anna Goldfield!

Davies OBE

'Forty Autumns' traces the dramatic lives of the family on both sides of the Iron Curtain

In this chronicle of a passionate marriage

to testify would jeopardise the fragile relationship with his daughter

Following Neville Cardus's assertion that 'there can be no summer in this land without cricket'

John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens's eccentric genius

Through informative chapters ranging from the physiological and environmental to the water vole's inclusion in myth

crisp blue sky mornings when the light through your window is just right

and their enduring modern legacy

and spends the long days on the beaches and haunting the picturesque town with a local boy she calls Llew

intimate account of his five-year odyssey in French cuisine

this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim-Crow-era Florida