The book ranges quite widely – taking the story back into the 1960s as well as into the 1980s and the early career of Osama ...

The monarch is still the ultimate constitutional longstop, with power to dismiss a rogue prime minister and to deny an ...

In the ensuing quarter-century, a select historical band has taken up this challenge – notably Andrew Pettegree in The ...

As the historian John Blair points out, corpse killing has been a feature of human society for millennia, and with good ...

As its subtitle suggests, The Discovery of Britain takes in a vast sweep of time, although the focus is of course on the ...

A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell ...

Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1960, to Gerard, a Haitian immigrant, and Matilde, who was of Puerto Rican ...

The Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland ...

When war broke out, he joined the British Expeditionary Force as a despatcher, driving his own car with a machine gun mounted ...

In this book the admirable Juliet Nicolson takes the view that women in particular are the repositories for secrets and, ...