This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it.

Contemporary pop music, art, fashion, style and the avant-garde was never the same after The Velvet Underground.

Could a year of kind acts every single day really help change the world for the better? Bernadette Russell decided to find out…

The life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism’s most significant writers.

An exploration of the phenomenon of the caudillo figure in Latin American politics and the rise of populism through the modern histories of the continent.

No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar, so embedded in our culture, as the robin. With more than six million breeding pairs, the robin is second only to the wren as Britain’s most common bird.

A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.

‘You think you’ve married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.'