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As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as – if not more – important? So why is it hard to find the right words to express what these uniquely comp...

Tina and Nina had a happy and careless childhood. Until the beginning of war in Croatia. After a bomb was thrown in front of their house family decided to leave Zadar. Just like many Italians at the end of the Second World War the two sisters left Zadar forever. Even though they thought they would come back just after a few days. But they never did. After the situation in Croatia got worse the whole family moved to Sweden. Their house was destroyed, looted and set on fire. In the house were v...

The extraordinary life of the global figure in modern environmentalism and co-creator of Gaia Theory, as confided to award-winning journalist Jonathan Watts

The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.

Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books tha...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS ‘A modern classic’ OBSERVER ‘An unforgettable epic of a book’DAILY MAIL

I was 21 years old when I found myself on the front stoop of the Playboy Mansion, its ornate front door feeling like a route to success. I want to tell the real story of my time there - the good and the bad, the dark and the light. The story I wish I'd heard as a young woman trying to find my way in the world. Before I showed up at a party, allowed myself to stay, and made the decisions that would shape my life.'

In 2008 the Playboy mansion became Crystal Harris's sanctuary - a shimmering ves...

During the Second World War, the population of Europe experienced and endured a lot of misery; not only the general population but also the soldiers who often had to join the army against their will. This is the diary of a young German soldier who was drafted into the army towards the end of the war. He writes about the terrible things he has seen and experienced. He himself was wounded with a shot in the leg. After his recovery and rehabilitation, he had to serve in the army a second tim...