A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"Shaun Bythell is the owner of The
"Hill provides us with a reading list the equal of any degree course."The Times (London)In pursuit of a book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, for
1955, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programs. Every week correspondents from around the world report on stories behind the headlines. After the huge success of From
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live.
In Washington on 14 August 2002, the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed to a stunned world how advanced Iran's nuclear programme was. Drawing on research, including interviews
What is love? Why are families so difficult? How do we get justice? Who is God? What makes us individuals? And why are we here in the first place? In responding to his granddaughter’s challengi
This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations gradua
?Charles Dumas...clear analysis and convincing detail” ?Paul A. Volcker2012 will bring another global economic crisis. It could have been avoided if America and other deficit countries had embarked on
When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for the "Mass Observation" project, Nella, a middle-aged housewif
It is widely accepted that global discoveries of conventional oil have peaked and that the era of cheap oil has gone forever. This book demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the "peak oil" theory i
Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela each brought about changes by beginning with a complaint that the status quo was wrong and needed to be changed. Complaint has driven society
