Polly, 28, lives in London with a "perfect-on-paper" boyfriend and a dead-end job. Her banal existence is turned upside down late one drunken night after a chance encounter with a man on a p
Many people in their fifties or sixties (and even their forties and seventies) have moved from being the gilded generation, to finding themselves with a reduced income or a skinny pension. Whether suc
Author Lianna Champ has nearly 40 years’ experience in funeral care and bereavement counselling. She is passionate about improving our relationship with death and dying, teaching us that if we l
Paris, 1968: Nicholas finds himself broke, without papers, and on the verge of being deported back to England. Seeking to stay in France, he takes a three-month contract as an English tutor to the 17-
Despite living in the same three-flat house in the suburbs of London, the residents are strangers to one another. The bottom floor is home to Tam, a recent ex-cop who spends his days drowning his sorr
TV documentary maker Nathalie Thompson is back for a third adventure, this time making a film on bioterror and Ebola that takes her from the Javanese jungle to the desolate interior of Zimbabwe. A web
Monk turned warrior Matthew marches ahead of King Alfred to Exeter, to herald the King’s triumphant return to the city, marking his great victory at Edington. It should have been a jou
On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age—the electrobu
Increased alcohol consumption in society today is rarely out of the news. But it seems that most therapies and therapists offer an all-or-nothing solution—give up completely or give in to the dr
England, 1813. Nineteen-year-old Catherine Bennet lives in the shadow of her two eldest sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, who have both made excellent marriages. No one expects Kitty to amount to anything.
