At the end of the nineteenth century, audiences were enthralled by the flickering image of an oncoming train in a Lumière Brothers’ short film; more than a hundred years later the immersive fantasy of...

Poacher turned gamekeeper is one of the oldest plots in fiction. In Guy Kennaway’s achingly funny new novel a diehard pheasant-shooting landowner called Banger turns into…a pheasant.

From the inimitable authors of the brilliant 100 FACTS ABOUT PANDAS, prepare to be amazed, shocked and delighted by their new tome on SHARKS…

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and ...

The extraordinary story of sport in Northern Ireland during the Troubles

Nigella Lawson’s much-loved classic Christmas cookbook released in ebook format for the very first time.

A fascinating exploration of one our best loved paintings, and the strange, dramatic history of its owners through time with a foreword by Grayson Perry.

One of the world’s most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand year...