Mother Tongue: The Story of the English LanguagePacked with fascinating facts on the English language, 'Mother Tongue' is an entertaining and didactic investigation of the influence and distribution of the language worldwide and its origins as a second rate tongue spoken by peasants.

this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems

is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race

But when disaster strikes and someone steals her kids

With the excellent nutritional knowledge she is known for

Selected as Historical Novel of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times

They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet

More about what really matters

Hal makes a choice that will change her life for ever

which does for medieval Japan what Game of Thrones does for medieval Europe

As the invisible threads that draw these two lives together are pulled ever tighter

tender and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

from the Victorian workhouse