Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, ...

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel - published in English for the first time - shines a light on politics and power in ...

Alex Niven is an author based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His latest book is "The North Will Rise Again" ...

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Massimo Pigliucci is the author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). His essays can be found at Rationally Speaking ...

Hoskins’s popularising study The Making of the English Landscape helped a post-war generation realise that the British ...

Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the ...

There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?