‘Entertaining and absorbing’ – The Sunday TimesA wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we’ve changed as a nation.In 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britain, along with 9 artificial eye makers, 20 peg makers, 6 stamp makers and 1 bee dealer. Fast forward nearly two centuries and there are 51,000 midwives working in the UK and not an eye ma...

‘You are all Invictus, you are now ambassadors for the spirit of these games. Never stop fighting and do all you can to lift up everyone around you…’The Invictus Games change lives and save lives.Created and spearheaded by Prince Harry, for whom this is a very personal cause, the Games are for current and former servicemen and women who have been wounded, injured or sick.Most races are about who gets to the finish line first. At the Invictus Games, even making the st...

Banlieue d'Aberdeen. Le corps d'une femme est retrouvé dans les fourrés. Poignardée. Sur sa gorge, fixée par un arceau métallique, une vipère noire. Vivante.En mer du Nord, quelque part entre la Norvège et l'Écosse, un car ferry sombre. Des centaines de passagers étaient à son bord... Une catastrophe sans précédent. Sans nul doute, un attentat. Non revendiqué et sans mobile apparent.Existe-t-il un lien entre ces deux affaires ? Certes, le commissaire Kate Beauchamp, en charge de l'enquête ...

Des petites cuillères en argent... Au rythme où vont les choses, le commissaire Red Metcalfe, de Scotland Yard, en aura bientôt un service complet. Mais pas question de les sortir pour le thé : ce sont des pièces à conviction. Détail étrange, chacune a été trouvée... dans une bouche. Plus précisément : dans la bouche sans langue d'une victime.De découvertes macabres en fausses pistes, la psychose gagne Londres, amplifiée par les médias. Depuis, Jack l'éventreur, la capitale anglaise n'avai...

BORIS JOHNSON:To leave or not to leave, that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrag'd Remainers,Or to take arms against a sea of Leavers,And by opposing end them? To leave, to stay,No more; and by leaving to say we endThe EU, and the thousand petty rulesThat we adhere to, - 'tis a consummation

A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we’ve changed as a nation.‘Entertaining and absorbing’ – The Sunday TimesIn 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britain, along with 9 artificial eye makers, 20 peg makers, 6 stamp makers and 1 bee dealer. Fast forward nearly two centuries and there are 51,000 midwives working in the UK and not an eye maker in sight! For...

‘You are all Invictus, you are now ambassadors for the spirit of these games. Never stop fighting and do all you can to lift up everyone around you…’The Invictus Games change lives and save lives.Created and spearheaded by Prince Harry, for whom this is a very personal cause, the Games are for current and former servicemen and women who have been wounded, injured or sick.Most races are about who gets to the finish line first. At the Invictus Games, even making the st...

All Brexit's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. . . Written by the Bard himself, with a little help from novelist Boris Starling, this wonderful comedy of errors retells the tragic story of the UK's acrimonious break from the EU, written in wonderful iambic pentameter.From Cameron and Osborne, through May and Gove, to Cummings and Boris, this is a story of cynical electioneering and poisoned political scheming, and a most original take on the definin...

Their love is against the laws of a merciless state—but the heart has its own power.For rollercoaster designer Theo, living on the edge is just part of the job. He’s used to wandering the world perfecting thrills, his heart immune to commitment. But then a commission in repressive North Korea exposes him to emotions he’s never dared to feel.Tour guide Min has a soul that wants to soar, but she knows it’s safer to build walls around her heart and mind. Skill...