ColditzIn a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, homosexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom,

He was British and Ethiopian

But Shay's return stirs up long-forgotten emotions in idyllic Elliscombe

travel inspiration and more

This is Sandi Toksvig's autobiography - part memoir

It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole

food writer

the erotic

and using lessons from the author's own stellar career path in typically male-dominated environments - she has a BA from Harvard in geophysics

I've never been to school

Under the Wig is for anyone who wants to know the reality of a murder trial

the poems originate from an extraordinary and diverse range of sources

survival & extinction