Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon is possibly one of the most remarkable – and most forgotten […]

Heather’s book is subtitled A New History because he takes issue with the view, inherited from a long […]

Central to My House in Umbria are two stalwarts (indeed, legends) of British stage and film: Dame Maggie Smith and Ronnie Barker […]

Walter M Miller Jr grew up in the in-between-the-wars American South, enlisting in the Army Air Corp in […]

Critical responses to Richard Dawkins’ international best-seller The God Delusion have ranged from the scholarly to the acerbic. […]

As events in Syria and Ukraine over the course of recent years have demonstrated, Vladimir Putin is a […]

In this fascinating book, retired and highly decorated Australian homicide detective Colin McLaren brings his years of investigative […]

Most people regard 1066 as the year in which William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England in the last […]

This is the astonishing account of an entirely forgotten episode of World War One – the over 100,000 […]

Written in a self-consciously chatty style that contains too many asides and diversions that try far too hard […]