Category: Books

The death of her partner Matt in 2017 was an almost uncanny echo of the tragedy that befell Jill’s family 38 years earlier.

Yesterday at 8am, hundreds of thousands of 18-year-olds – and their anxious parents – found out their A-level results, with the joy or despair that followed.

The Olympic Games are proving a wonderful ­showcase for the historic sites of Paris as athletes from around the world race along its Haussmann boulevards and over its imposing bridges

Nusrit applied to the Metropolitan Police. The candidates were told to wear a bra and knickers for the medical after the interview. ‘Take your top off and touch your toes,’ said the doctor.

Plucked from his world of piano-playing, Stephen de Bastion was one of 1,070 Hungarian men suddenly called up to provide forced labour on the Russian front, after Hungary joined the Second World War.

If you’re a mother of a newborn -overwhelmed as the primary carer – you might wish you’d been born a dwarf hamster in Siberia. There, the males care for pregnant females and help deliver the baby.

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.

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.

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

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.