Life: An Unauthorised BiographyA magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers.

Since his death in 1974

of his reception by other boys (and masters)

she resolves to head home aboard the most celebrated steamer in the world - RMS Titanic

But not now

and while Hitler's creation of the Holocaust remains a singular crime

James gives his quirky

Yet most of us know precious little about how our brains actually work

Dan Saladino sets out to encounter these endangered foods

he notices a stranger lurking in the upper gallery of his shop

architecture and furniture to be found in English churches offers a fascinating account of centuries of accumulated wealth

Around them a web of espionage

An intrepid journalist unravels an opaque