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.

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

I wished that in my next lifetime I would be born a cat - on the condition that I would live in a home like mine.

Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the suggestion of her daughters, and then six more in quick succession. She recounts how each cat came into her life, their distinct demeanours and curiosities and their ability to live fully in each moment.

Anat falls in love with the furry creatures,...

Greta Thunberg was born in 2003. In August 2018, she started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over the world and now involves over 1 million schoolchildren. The movement is now called Fridays For Future. Thunberg has spoken at climate rallies across Europe. In December she attended the United Nations COP24 in Katowice, Poland, where she addressed the Secretary-General and made a speech that was shared many million times around the globe....

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead