Brian L. Porter 
Muffin, Digby and Petal [EPUB ebook] 

**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for t he Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** ”Haunting … lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned” Sund …

The Rowntree name is linked to some of the most iconic and well-loved brands of the 20th century, including the Kit Kat, Aero and Fruit Pastilles. On the way he transformed a small factory in York in …

The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to …

In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the E …

In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100, 000 African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Ja …

Margaret Lashmar tells the true story of her mother leaving home with the lodger in the 1950”s, when she was aged just five, her life without her, and then the reunion, fifty years later.A heart-war …

”Rape, Ravage and Rant are the German watchwords in this war. Right, Revenge & Retrenchment shall be ours.” Alexander Scrimgeour, 17th September 1914. Most published war diaries have been written b …

‘I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges.’ When …

Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile ce …