In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her father, the President of Equatorial Guinea, to be educated ... Monica Macias – Black Girl from Pyongyang

Born into an impoverished aristocratic family, and raised on the family’s Minterne estate near Dorchester, Pamela Churchill Harriman became Winston Churchill’s daughter-in-law and trusted confidante, and American ambassador to Paris ... Sonia Purnell – Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power

Close to Adam Nicolson’s home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds – nightingales, ... Adam Nicolson – Bird School

Ray Mears has accumulated his tracking skills over 35 years of practice in the field, all over the world, and this book will be the first authoritative but accessible and ... Ray Mears – Outdoor Tracking Handbook

The first memoir from one of British cycling’s most enigmatic characters. In the summer of 2020 sportswriter David Walsh asked Pippa York if she’d be his travelling companion for the ... David Walsh and Pippa York – The Escape: The Tour, The Cyclist and Me

Christopoher Somerville has covered the length and breadth of the UK on foot, and has written and broadcast about its history, landscape, wildlife and people for over 25 years. In ... Christopher Somerville – Britain’s Best Walks

In a thrilling narrative account, Helen Carr sheds new light on a pivotal period of English history in the first book to cover the whole of the fourteenth century in ... Helen Carr – Sceptred Isle – A New History of the Fourteenth Century

The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it as one of the most picturesque spots in Dorset: two pubs, a small playground, enough gorgeous cottages to keep a thatcher ... Chris Chibnall – Death at the White Hart

In Rome Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on false charges of heresy, but then salvation arrives in an unexpected form. ... Sir Tony Robinson – The House of Wolf

Harry Mount, the Editor of The Oldie, will be talking to AN Wilson the award winning author of 60 histories, novels and biographies on subjects ranging from Queen Victoria, Charles ... The Oldie Event: When Harry met Andrew – Harry Mount in conversation with A N Wilson

An explosive memoir from the heart of Westminster, lifting the lid on some of the leadership battles that have defined British politics for a decade and a half during the ... Sir Graham Brady – Kingmaker – Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers

Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of? What might ... Dr Lucy Pollock – The Golden Rule – Lessons in Living