In Worteldraden reist Marjan de Kort door Suriname op zoek naar de levens van Jan en Charles de Kort, twee broers van haar opa die er werkten als pater-onderwijzer. Van jongs af aan was zij geïntrigeerd door de familieverhalen over ‘het goede werk’ van deze heerooms in dat verre exotische land, tot 1975 een kolonie van Nederland. Als tiener al voelde zij weerstand tegen overheersing door de ene mens van de andere en stelde ze zichzelf vragen als: Hoe vergaat het Suriname en de Surinamers...

'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95degree jungle.

Beautiful fashion plates from Regency magazine La Belle Assemblée are combined with much-loved passages from Jane Austen’s novels and juvenilia and woven together with commentary from leading Oxford academic Professor Ros Ballaster.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, and looks back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him, and on all of us.

Perfect for fans ofDrive to Survive,On the Gridis a love song to Formula One by acclaimed journalist Luke Smith.

A collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's best music writing

A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?