Death of an Ordinary ManSarah Perry's father in law, David, died at home nine days after a cancer diagnosis and having previously been in the good health. The speed of his illness outstripped that of the NHS and social care, so the majority of nursing fell to Sarah and her husband. They witnessed what happens to the body and spirit, hour by hour, as it approaches death. This book is an unstinting account of death by cancer, a reportage into the daily experience of caring, an

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

at just fifteen years old

men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there

During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets

fajitas and toad-in-the-hole

our gender

Insects are essential for life as we know it

they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head

find their way to Yoojin's Book Kitchen

Arthur has survived

Stephen King has fully authorised a return to the harrowing world of 'The Stand' through this original short story anthology

and face each obstacle undaunted with all the stubbornness and exuberance of Wales itself