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

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

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

Richard Littlejohn was born in Ilford Essex in 1954. It wasn't just another century it was another c..

When fresh-faced newly qualified vet Anna arrives in the seemingly sleepy Dorset village of Ebbourne..

As a child writer Maggie Wadey was aware her mother was different from her father and his family and..

In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic to bag themselves husbands and titles...

Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren and to maintain and increase power in Europe ..

To many Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique portrayed as an ageing stiff widow. ..

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

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..

Rick Stein's childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictab..

Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..