Across a waking landFed up with bleak headlines of biodiversity loss, nature writer Roger Morgan Grenville sets out on a 1,000 mile walk through a British spring to see whether there are reasons to be hopeful about the natural world. His aim is to match the pace at which the oak leaves emerge, roughly 25 miles north each day. Fighting illness, blizzards and his own ageing body, he visits every main habitat between Lymington and Cape Wrath in an epic eight week adventure,

Tyen has cast off his old identity

and the Cold War

Jews fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition needed Antwerp for their escape

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A common word

'Kitchenly 434' is set in a sprawling Tudorbethan mansion in Sussex

this is the outstanding long-awaited collection by the inimitable Bard of Salford

there is a fish dish for every occasion

If you want to save the planet

Napoleon is placed firmly in this context: he wanted to see himself as a patron of the sciences and progress

Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide - the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz - a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s

painful home truths are brought to light