Jobs for the girlsDrawn from real life, from interviews with women from all sections of society who have ever had a job, this book is a portrait of British women's working lives from 1950, through cardigans and pearls, via mini skirts and bottom pinching, to shoulder pads and the ping of the first emails (early 1990s), never forgetting overalls, aprons and uniforms. Graham conveys the full range of experience: to convey the flavour and atmosphere of workplaces in all

Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre

And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index

and after oblivion

This posthumous retrospective of the popular winner of the Costa Book of the Year with Inside the Wave (2017) covers ten collections written over four decades

she contemplates the nature of madness

Expert birders start each January by drawing up their yearlist - the birds they are determined to see in the next 365 days

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world

When she is nominated for 'the most important literary award in Europe'

and adapted into a major TV series

were the last recorded words of celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce

From hearty stews to delicate soups

the beauty we have on our doorsteps