The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done AThe Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as "the best non fiction book so far this year" by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times.

but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun

It's 200 years since Cinderella found her prince

Bernard Sumner

But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl

A runaway with a privileged past

Combining practical birdwatching tips

Isable accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

and decorative purposes

Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter and director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation

statues across the world were pulled down in an extraordinary wave of global iconoclasm

Noam Chomsky to David Graeber

She becomes the sixth wife - a queen and a friend