Ian FlemingIan Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture, but Fleming's life was more mysterious than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother and extraordinary mother established his ambition to be 'the complete man'. Only a writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal experiences and career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while

During the 2010 Olympic speed skating final

He will learn how dangerous hopes and dreams can be

connecting far-flung corners of the nation and creating its own distinctive environments and working worlds

It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps

There are towns

She makes the call to evacuate if she believes the options have been exhausted or that the situation has escalated beyond hope

but she's heard all about it

Exiled to a far-flung island by the whims of the gods

for 50 years

or will it rain

it is an edge of your seat international political thriller by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

share their first kiss a few hours before the Nazis reach her hometown