Henry 'Chips' Channon Volume 3 1943-57This final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles. Throughout these final 14 years Chips assiduously describes events in and around Westminster, gossiping about individual MPs'

After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop

it would have been almost impossible for the US to fight back in Europe

cocktails and the many varieties of gin around the world

Ronnie O'Sullivan turned professional with the highest of expectations

and temporary accommodation - and a feeling of displacement and separation follows

a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached

yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War

He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son

In this book David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge research happening right now that suggests our expectations shape our experience

flaps and fold-outs from the UK's favourite author Julia Donaldson and award-winning illustrator Sharon King-Chai

and the only woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder

conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction