Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stre..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

Crime fiction is the single most popular genre in international publishing and Australia has some of..

Described by the author as simply ?a work of love? Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fa..

Andrey Kurkov's war diaries continue - a searing deeply human portrait of a nation reshaped by war. ..

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world?s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated b..

Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..

New York Post and Toronto Sun crime reporter and author of Cold Blooded Murder Brad Hunter has spent..

Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much do..

'My story is one of laughter and hedonism dressing up and showing off. I played Queen in a parallel ..

When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

In each chapter of How to Survive History Cody Cassidy explores how to survive one of history's grea..

Anthropophagy - humans eating their fellow-humans - creates a curious blend of revulsion and fascina..

Downton Abbey has captured the imagination of the nation. Written by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fel..

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front one thing was clear: mankind's..

Sarah's first book For the Love of Oscar tells the story of her first child Oscar's birth his postna..

Straight from the bowels of back street police stations locked psychiatric wards and the criminal co..

In this follow-up to the bestselling CLANLANDS Sam and Graham document their journey across New Zeal..

Happily married and running a successful business Peter Berry's life changed when at the age of 50 h..

In 1972 sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Michelle Pearson gave up her son for adoption. Michelle was told..

The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the rai..

For nearly three decades Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology servi..

At the age of twenty-eight Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal ..

Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first ..

In his 26 years in the field Dr Richard Taylor has worked on well over 100 murder cases. Taylor draw..

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April Captain Tom Moore 99-year-old Second World War..

Is life getting on top of you? Do you dream of being stranded on an island just for some alone time?..

We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. I..

Ignited by a lightning strike in a remote forest the Currowan fire was one of the most terrifying ep..

Asteroids killer sharks nuclear bombs viruses deadly robots climate change the apocalypse - why is H..

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..

After World War II Sydney experienced a chillingly calculated crime wave thanks to discontent mixed ..

Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women showcasing ..

Bombs were falling all over Britain. . .For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapto..

Behind one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history lies an incredible political scandal. On..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon following track..

A brief guide to US politics which provides a non-partisan assessment of the ongoing challenges face..

It's a trauma like no other. Being perceived as a threat or worse hunted as food makes an animal att..

The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about..

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing ..

At the age of eighteen Kari Gislason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering encounter ..

A joint operation between Britain and France the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain ter..

'Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent...your dilemma is not whether the kids are inno..

Once upon a time a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival p..

Acclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As hi..

In 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide Australia. Well-dressed and unmarked he h..

Every day Dr Rachel Clarke tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives...

As a Royal Marine Commando H. Collins served in Afghanistan post 9/11 in 2001 on combat operations p..

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau in 1909 women have worked at the heart of British s..

Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative crimino..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his ?last gamble? in the snow-covered forests of the Ardennes. H..

Georgia Williams' murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the nat..

Brought to you by Penguin.Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2023It was one of the images of the twenti..

It's 1963. The year of the Profumo scandal the Great Train Robbery the rise of teenage consumerism a..

A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Bri..

It was said of the young Frank Sinatra that he came across as 'St Francis of Assisi with a shoulder ..

In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous es..

Few cricketers understand the rollercoaster of emotions that come with being part of an Ashes series..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

In 2004 the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was R..

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Sovie..

The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires i..

Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..

Throughout the occupied territories Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the NazisBased on ..

Can we resurrect dinosaurs Jurassic Park-style? Are we living in The Matrix's digital simulation? Do..

Famous for his portrayal of the iconic hardman Grant Mitchell and as the maker of various documentar..

From royal expert and royal butler Grant Harrold comes an unforgettable memoir and portrait of a roy..

Setting out for a family day in Devon nine-year-old Keira Ball suffered catastrophic brain injuries ..

King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso owls have captivated and inspi..

For more than 50 years Wendy McCarthy has been on the leading edge of Australian feminism and her tr..

When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has..

On June 22 1954 in the depth of a southern winter teenage friends Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker we..

In 2019 Netflix had a hit with documentary series Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer. ..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

End of Innocence is the first in a non-fiction series ('Truly Unforgotten') exploring UK cold cases...