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Michael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians - especially the..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash an American flier who after being shot do..

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unw..

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s many railways were 'rationalised' and gradually shut down. Rura..

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife when c..

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements buying fan..

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..