After saying goodbye to life as a successful fashion editor in London, Karen Wheeler is now happy in her small village house in rural France. Her idyll is complete when she meets the love of her...

A fascinating chance to hear Steve Redgrave talk about his life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. Sir Steve Redgrave is a former British rower who...

Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn’t seen it coming, and she certainly wasn’t ready for it. She lives in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a...

Roman Halter is a schoolboy in 1939, when he and his family watch the ‘Volksdeutsch’ neighbours in their small town in Western Poland greet the arrival of Hitler’s armies with kisses and...

With honesty, 'Wasted' documents Mark Johnson's descent into the depths of drug addiction and criminality, and how he somehow pulled himself through, and now runs his own thriving tree surgery...

‘An unknown place.’ This was what Michael Frayn’s children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book he sets out to rediscover that lost land...

Celebrating the genius of Dylan Thomas, these two productions shine very different lights on the renowned author. ‘Badgers in my Vest’ is a darkly funny play by John Fletcher, based on a true...

In these memoirs of 35 years as agent and close friend, Norma Farnes portrays Spike Milligan in all his guises. 'Spike' reveals his extraordinary sense of humour, his battle with a restless mind...

'Angela’s Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt’s critically–acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Irish–American childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics’...

Strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, James Herriot has swapped his wellingtons and breeches for sheepskin boots and a baggy flying suit ... But the vet-turned-airman is the sort of...

Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three...

In a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the celebrated writer, presenter and polymath, you can hear - in his own words - the beliefs and aspirations that have shaped him. The...

Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union. When her...

Erik Weihenmayer was born with a degenerative eye disorder, and lost his sight by the age of thirteen. Yet he was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling,...

For over 40 years, Christopher Hitchens wrote, with passionate commitment, on matters that others feared to broach. This volume of essays spans his whole career and encompasses his writing on...