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As he travels from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico to a slum outside of Nairobi and to a meditation retreat deep in the Massachusetts woods, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to a group of people who share a surprising way of thinking about life.

This is the heartbreaking story of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones, which sparked the biggest police search in UK history. The nation was shocked by her disappearance from the tiny Welsh village of Machynlleth in October 2012. Her body was never fully recovered but paedophil...

'Around the World in 80 Trades' offers an exciting insight into the human story behind the money in our pockets, and reminds us that making a living is about exactly that - living.

As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient's occupation, hometown and ailments both imagined and genuine from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although D...

This is a biography of Arthur Lowe, the legendary Captain Mainwaring of TV's 'Dad's Army'. Lowe's hold on the public's imagination and affection is as strong as ever despite his death as far back as 1982.

The Adventure World Championship is a 430-mile race through the Amazon rainforest; one of the most gruelling endurance events on the planet. As Mikael Lindnord and his team collapsed one night, exhausted and starving, he noticed a scruffy but stoical stray dog out of the corner of his eye. Impres...

Between these pages is everything you need to know about our oceans, explained in 25 questions. In 'Ask An Ocean Explorer' marine biologist of over 20 years and advisor for the BBC's 'Blue Planet II', Dr Jon Copley, explains the science and wonder of the deep ocean. Combining untold history of oc...

Written with the full consent and collaboration of Ronnie Barker himself, this biography is full of interviews and unseen personal illustrations from his own collection.

London, 1963. Angela Patrick was 19 years old and pregnant. Being under 21, she was still under the governance of her parents, strict Catholics who sent her to an imposing-looking convent for unmarried mothers. At eight weeks, her son was taken away from her and put up for adoption. 30 years late...

Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these wome...