May 2024 – CHOICEHARD

Inside the world's deadliest all-inclusive trip: How 'conga line' queues form on Everest, why guides charge up to $1 million… and the very surprising secret goings-on at base camp

May 31, 2024September 2, 2024Admin0

How did the highest place in the world, and one of the most hazardous, become a holiday you could buy, just like a Caribbean cruise? Writer Will Cockrell tries to find the answer.

Trans trailblazer who went from Liverpool lad to Vogue supermodel. Everyone from Elvis Presley to Peter O'Toole fell for April Ashley, who claimed… 'I could have slept with all four Beatles!'

May 23, 2024September 2, 2024Admin0

So, when would you like to transfer from monsieur to mademoiselle?’ asked Dr Georges Burou at his clinic. ‘Immediately,’ replied George Jamieson. It was 1960. Aged 25, he was desperate.

The man who had a gun hole in his stomach – and the surgeon who experimented on him in the most disgusting way possible. A fascinating new book lays bare the truth about our guts

May 17, 2024September 2, 2024Admin0

A brilliant new cultural history of the gut, Richardson’s Rumbles, shows how humans have been paying attention to our gurglier regions for millennia.

Liz and Richard's favourite pastimes? Fighting & Sex! Burton was convinced it would be a flop. But Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? was a smash hit, thanks to the love-hate relationship of its stars

May 10, 2024September 2, 2024Admin0

It is the passionate identification on the part of the actors with the characters they played in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? which gives the film, released in June 1966, its lasting appeal.