When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..

On 3 May 1961 after a trial conducted largely in secret a man named George Blake was sentenced to an..

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But h..

Picking up from where his first memoir left off Dr Tom is back with more of his gloriously eccentric..

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

“So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell Stalin’s had it now!” were the withering words of t..

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission deep behind ene..

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However Quicksand is not a book about death and de..

For over a decade Stephanie Green was a doctor on-call for one of the world's busiest airports confr..

To many Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique portrayed as an ageing stiff widow. ..