Sam and Bud were ordinary first-time homebuyers. Their intention, in moving to France, was to create a simple life in a place where they could ...

In a career that has seen him in action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland and most recently Iraq, Lieutenant Commander James Newton ...

In 1999 Johnson Beharry scraped together the airfare for Britain and joined the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. He served in Kosovo, Northern Ireland and ...

Bobby Moore's death in 1993, at the age of fifty-one, had a profound impact on the people of this country. As the only English football ...

Already an accomplished food writer and actress, adored the world over, Madhur Jaffrey can also tell a story beautifully - especially when it is the ...

With no one to confide in, Kathy O'Beirne suffered in silence as she was battered by her father and molested by local boys. At the ...

It is 1961 in Montpelier, France. Dora and her eight-year-old daughter Josiane have been arrested, unable to provide on demand the one franc coin to ...

When Edward Enfield decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted by prehistoric fortresses, rugged landscapes, and landladies who insisted on washing his shirts. He ...

In 1999, Lance Armstrong made world headlines with the most stunning comeback in the history of sport, winning the Tour de France in the fastest ...

Perhaps the most unconventional and breathtaking 'father-son' story you'll ever read. My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as ...

At the age of thirty, Rory Stewart was appointed coalition deputy Governor of two provinces in the Marsh region of southern Iraq. He kept a ...

One summer's day in the late 1960s two young Londoners fell in love with a hill farm in South Wales. But they had almost no ...

Overwhelmed and alone, Jasvinder was fifteen when she ran away from home to escape a forced marriage to a much older man she'd never met. ...

Rory Stewart's sparsely poetic and highly acclaimed account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been hailed as a modern classic of 43 ...

At thirteen Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy's public school, a privileged member of an apparently blessed generation: A rebel - one of ...

Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in 41, flying more different aircraft types than anyone ...