Bradley's railway guideIn 1825 the Stockton & Darlington company strode into history with the opening of the world's first public steam railway. What the S&DR had pioneered soon picked up speed, transforming lives and landscapes, connecting far flung corners of the nation and creating its own distinctive environments and working worlds. This ambitious and lavishly illustrated volume brings the story of Britain's railways to life, spanning two centuries of achievement and

thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches

How do we make sense of the unfamiliar

It began for our narrator 40 years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it

people are rediscovering the joys of baking their own bread

Recipes include classic dals

'Moon Road' captures the wonder and grief of watching our children grow up

The book covers his journey through breakdowns

Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us

A gift to all Austen lovers

as well as the series of catastrophes that led to the dynasty's ultimate demise

to use a current expression

David Damrosch