Trees are older and better looking than people, writes Will Cohu, who assumes our total ignorance and entertains us as he teaches. The beech is 'a lad's mag', and the yew is the longest living tree.
There were few more repellent characters than the East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. But Maureen Flanagan's vivacious memoir sheds a strangely intimate light on their baleful legend.
Talented pianist Sara Solovitch knows the feeling of stage fright all too well. The day before her sixtieth birthday she decided to face her demons, and set herself a deadline for a solo recital.
Historians, writes Winder, underestimate the impact of sport on our lives. The summer of 1934 saw success for England in cricket, golf and tennis. But this was not the start of a new age, but a lucky blip.
Despite being 'sacked' as a student at the Royal Academy, Rex Whistler went on to become one of the most admired artists in book illustration, theatre and film design.
LITERARY FICTION
The lives of Katherine Tennison, husband Rick and their son run along the predictable lines of the affluent classes of West London.
CRIME
There is a continuing plot featuring Commandant Servez of the Toulouse crime squad and his duel with a sadomasochistic serial killer.
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The Flemings, Johnson's fictional Notting Hill family, are back in the hood after five years in rural Dorset.
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Rupert Brooke is best known for the opening to his WWI poem, The Soldier: 'If I should die, think only this of me.'
HISTORICAL
A few pages into volume one of what are known as the Neapolitan Novels, I was completely hooked.
DEBUT FICTION
Rakoff achieved extraordinary acclaim for her 2014 memoir, My Salinger Year, about her coming of age in New York's publishing world.
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It's 47 years since the publication of children's classic Rosie's Walk, and now Rosie the hen reappears.
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Stalin called his daughter his 'Little Sparrow' and obeyed her every order. Svetlana later learnt that her mother had shot herself when she was 6. In her hunger to be loved, she fell for men easily and intensely - much to her father's disapproval. She married twice before his death, and later a third time, emerging with two children.
Chewing gum, swearing and drinking: are these actually key to success? Psychologist Richard Stephens argues for the distinct hidden benefits of being bad and taking risks.
An absorbing book by London consultant neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan, which looks at some compelling case studies of the lives wrecked by seemingly-insoluble conditions.
For 28 years Julia followed her husband Oliver to postings around the world. They had four children, and became adept smugglers of Marmite. She is jolly, resourceful and good in a crisis.
Armani's iconic Emporio 'eagle' logo came out of a design that the designer had created for use on T-shirts. 'We were looking for a symbol - something that would fly high,' he said.
The presence of aliens and UFOs has long been debated all over the world with some people even claiming they've been abducted. This book takes a look at a selection of these surreal stories.
Rubbing ground onions on your bald spot was meant to stimulate growth. Want to stop a nosebleed? Blow powder of toad up your nose! Elizabeth P. Archibald's has collected clips from how-to manuals.
Jeremy Hutchinson was the greatest advocate of his generation, a pivotal figure who was connected to the Bloomsbury set from birth. His mother was supposedly the inspiration for Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Hutchison's clients included Christine Keeler and the spy George Blake, he also represented Penguin Books in the Lady Chatterly case. Jeremy Hutchinson is seen here (right centre) outside Southend Magistrates Court, in 1963. Christine Keeler (left) was defended byJeremy Hutchinson over the Profumo affair.
Cuckoos lay eggs resembling those of the species it's cheating. This behaviour has attracted outraged comment for centuries. The mystery is why other breeds let them get away with it
The latest in the Vogue series spotlights the life and career of the flamboyant designer and his sister, Donatella. Born to a dressmaker, the duo spent their childhoods in their mother's dress shops.
Depsite everything the human body is still a mystery to most of us. When the body goes wrong, there isn't any sense behind that. This book grants an insight into the workings of the body.
The first meeting between Jean Shrimpton and David Bailey is often said to mark fashion's transition from the Fifties to the Sixties. Bailey's photography was both blatantly sexual and steeped in youthful energy.
As the Chelsea Flower Show blooms, this book tells you all you need to know about brightening up your garden. 'Colour is the most potent weapon in a gardener's armoury,' says Lawson
Martin Edwards has chosen to view detective fiction through the prism of the Detection Club,'an elite social network of writers whose work earned a reputation for literary excellence.
All this week, Labour MP Simon Danczuk is laying bare how the Establishment, the Liberal Party, the police and even MI5 covered up the industrial-scale child abuse of 29-stone Rochdale MP Cyril Smith. Today, how his victims were ignored and betrayed when they tried to expose their suffering.
In the finale of her unique inside story, Vicky Pryce, the wife of disgraced ex-minister Chris Huhne, describes life at open prison East Sutton Park.
In the second extract from her autobiography, published exclusively in the Mail today, Mary Berry describes the sudden death of the son she doted on, pictured left.
In his compelling new biography, Gary Morecambe talks about his father's relationship with Ernie Wise and how he continued to make them laugh even up until the end.
The star was accused of being a communist after allegedly telling banquet guests 'the Russian purges' were a 'wonderful thing'.
Jerry and Lucian had never quite bonded. While sitting for him she gave him cashmere jerseys, which he loathed. But worse, she had a habit of being late.
In an extract from his explosive memoirs, Power Trip, Damian McBride reveals how the former Chancellor survived by the skin of his teeth after credit crunch bungle.
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