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‘Truly heroic’ Daniel Craig’A completely brilliant thing, to benefit so many’ Nicole Kidman’Powerful and deeply moving’ Andy Burnham’An epic journey . . . will touch the hearts of people everywhere’ …

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents th …

A superbly illustrated history of five centuries of Jewish manuscripts The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myri …

How our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern myth Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his h …

History is written by the winners. It’s the faithful servants, the insiders, the ones who stick around, who can adapt to almost any condition that get to write the official histories. They publish th …

Torry Martina comedian, actor, and hippiefled from California to the wilderness of Alaska, searching for answers to life’s big questions. He found what he was looking for…and a lot more! A moose go …

Following the declaration of war by the United States, more than 200 American men, unwilling to wait until US squadrons could be raised, volunteered to join the Royal Flying Corps in the summer of 19 …

"Soldier mortals would not survive if they were not blessed with the gift of imagination and the pictures of hope, " wrote Confederate Private Henry Graves in the trenches outside Petersbur …

Standing on the bank of his beloved Hudson River, a man remembering his youth and the experiences that made him the person he became–his journey from simple beginnings, exploring the Hudson River, s …

Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time.’This is an amazing story’ Simon Mayo, BBC Radi …