In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art a
Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Hôtel Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were duly brought to his room he got out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Sh
Cool can't be taught. Or can it? That's the received wisdom, yet the idea behind this sleek, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of How to Sound Cultured) is that, on the contrary,
The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible ? a book that is too large to swallow whole, yet too important in our hist
What kind of relationship advice would Freud offer?How would a breakup exchange go between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir?What would Kant’s sexts look like?From falling head over heels to gut
A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in EnglishApostrophes are a f’ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved hapha
Published to coincide with the club's centenary celebrations, 100 Years of Leeds United tells the story of a one-club city and its tumultuous relationship with its football team.Since its foundation i
Sometimes I think of how I will describe New York to my children. I will tell them that the city was in so many ways, and for such a long time, the best and worst thing about my life. That it was a so
Over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949, British and American aircrafts carried out the most ambitious airborne relief operation ever mounted, flying 2.3 million tons of supplies on 277,500 flig
In 2004 soccer author, journalist and award-winning documentary maker Gwendolyn Oxenham played futebol feminino for Santos FC, Brazil’s most celebrated club. The team hitchhiked to practice, shared th
Weaving together the great ideas of science, Reality’s Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind.Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece
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'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we k
Explosive advice from LA's mysterious online columnist, Dear Coquette.With her merciless and razor-sharp wit, bolted to one of the most finely-tuned moral compasses out there, the Coquette has been di
This book, voted "GOLF Magazine"'s number 1 golf book of 2009, is a lavish, full-colour essential addition to any golfer's coffee table, featuring Sky Sports' golf commentator Bruce Critchle
