An entertaining, highly readable account of the larger-than-life characters that have ruled England through the ages. The author paints colourful portraits of a mixed bunch of rulers ranging from the drunken and debauched 'merry monarch' Charles II to the idealized domesticity and colonial ambition [...]

The world's fascination with Bond is unstoppable. James Bond is the greatest British fictional hero of the post-war era. He also has a huge following in the US - and around the world - as a legendary Cold War warrior, and now as a daredevil able to take on the villains of the post-Cold War world. Th[...]

In April 2008, in the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten, a truly horrifying vision of hell was discovered by police in the cellar of a seemingly normal suburban home. Undoubtedly the worst case in Austrian criminal history, this appalling story of incarceration and sexual abuse quickly became interna[...]