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A gripping, wide-ranging exploration of secret-keeping – why we do it, why secrets fascinate us and why we confess – as told through the stories and observations of some of the world’s most bizarre and extraordinary characters.
Beautifully illustrated stories of lighthouses and their guardians which transport the reader to the some of the most remote places on earth.
From Pickles, the dog who single-handedly saved the 1966 world cup, to Pal, who found silver screen fame as the original Lassie, Battersea’s A Dog a Day contains 365 fascinating stories of dogs to enjoy throughout the year.
The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan.
This is the true story of art thief Stephane Breitwieser, who stole over 300 art pieces in the course of 200 heists.Â
What a Thing to Say to the Queen! is a collection of anecdotes celebrating the lighter side of the royal family, specially updated to mark the passing of the much-loved monarch.
In the late 1980s the Daily Telegraph transformed the traditionally dry and stolid world of obituaries, ushering in a new way of writing about the dead that was vivid, gently subversive and richly comic. Telegraph obituaries became a byword for entertaining journalism, celebrated for their deadpan tone and sympathetic eye for human quirks and eccentricities. Here is a gallery of the most entertaining of these eccentric lives from the recent past, most of them never before published in book form. They amply demonstrate that in an age of committees and bureaucracy and increasing pressure to conform, eccentrics of all kinds have continued to thrive.
This journal of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is a collection of Andrey Kurkov’s writings and broadcasts from Kyiv.
Twenty-five years after her tragic death, James Patterson tells the heartbreaking true story of Princess Diana’s life as a mother and a global icon.
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