Much loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable takes you on a captivating adventure through its trademark blend of language, culture, myth and legend. Edited by Susie Dent, this new edition contains an intriguin...

White Women was and still is the legendary first book by Helmut Newton, published in 1976. His inimitable blend of aestheticism, technical perfection and luxurious upper-middle-class decadence is today just as appealing and controversial as it was th...

This & That Pub quizzes Weird animals People & Lifestyle Friend or Foe Mae Heyday Prostitution in the World Survivors – an Encounter with Reality? Culture For Whose Benefit? The Norse Myths The Flame-Haired Monarch Language Make a Splash and Add a Da...

HAVING DEFEATED THE MONSTROUS THREAT THAT NEARLY DESTROYED THE PECULIAR WORLD, JACOB PORTMAN IS BACK WHERE HIS STORY BEGAN, IN FLORIDA. EXCEPT NOW MISS PEREGRINE, EMMA, AND THEIR PECULIAR FRIENDS ARE WITH HIM, AND DOING THEIR BEST TO BLEND IN. BUT CA...

No more than a promising actor with handful of films to his name when he died in 1955. James Dean has since been elevated to an iconic status surpassed only by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. And his image - a blend of'50s cool and tough-guy charm...

Pixies, elves, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, and the other enchanted little people: where do they come from? Folklorists consider them the byproduct of ancient religious beliefs, occultists term them nature spirits, and the peasantry call them falle...