The Lost Kings – A Code

Bruno Hare tells a tale of his time spent in Pakistan, researching his novel, Lost Kings, a rollicking tale of adventure and derring-do set on the far frontiers of Empire in the best tradition of Kipling and Rider Haggard.

Explore the genesis of The Lost Kings

Bruno Hare introduces us to the wild lands that inspired his first novel, The Lost Kings, a rollicking tale of adventure and derring-do set on the far frontiers of Empire in the best tradition of Kipling and Rider Haggard.

The fall and rise of Matt Hampson

Engage author Paul Kimmage talks to ex-England rugby player Matt Hampson, who dislocated his neck during a game.

Simon Day talks Comedy and Error

Best known as one of the stars of the Fast Show and Bellamy’s People co-starring Paul Whitehouse, Simon Day tells the shocking, sometimes sad and hilariously funny story of his life so far.

Tom Rob Smith on The Secret Speech

Tom Rob Smith’s follow-up to wildly successsful debut novel Child 44 is republished this month.

Watch out for a competition to win amazing signed, limited edition numbered bound copies of his latest novel, Agent 6, next week on our sister website, Bookdagger!

Discover Chasing the Sun by Richard Cohen

The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Download an extract from Chasing the Sun – a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life.

Chasing the Sun

The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Author Richard Cohen discusses Chasing the Sun – a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life.

Listen to The Soundtrack of a Northern Life podcast

In his eagerly awaited new book, Reelin’ in the Years DJ Mark Radcliffe takes a record from each year of his life, using the song as a starting point from which to reach out and pull together a wonderfully entertaining catalogue of memories and asides about British culture.

Watch Will and Kate’s Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Will and Kate’s Big Fat Gypsy Wedding is the exclusive behind-the-scenes photo album of the royal/gypsy wedding the whole world has been waiting for!

The Lost Battles, by Jonathan Jones

Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches.

Jonathan Jones chronicles how, in 1504, they competed with each other directly, to paint the walls of a room in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio…

Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story

On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the freezing water of Newhaven estuary outside Brighton and tried to swim across, almost drowning in the process. Voices, he said, had told him to do it.

Listen to Henry and Patrick Cockburn, authors of Henry’s Demons discuss their experiences.

Read an extract, and watch the trailer for Left Neglected, by Lisa Genova

Download the first chapter from Lisa Genova’s moving novel about a busy, vibrant woman in her 30s who has a car accident, leaving her to deal with a crippling disorder called left neglect.

Get to know Ed Hogan

Author of Blackmoor and The Hunger Trace, published this month, Ed Hogan, discusses how he began writing and the inspirations behind his two highly atmospheric novels.

Douglas Starr on Killer of Little Shepherds

Douglas Starr, author of The Killer of Little Shepherds, discusses how real life crime-fighters managed to solve crimes before modern technology.

Read an extract from Problem Child, by Caradoc King

Thirty years after being told he was adopted and ejected from his family, Caradoc went in search of his natural family and began to make sense of the mystery of his two absent mothers.

Margaret Heffernan exposes Wilful Blindness

Margaret Heffernan has written an engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth…

Read an extract from Wilful Blindness

Distinguished business woman and writer, Margaret Heffernan, examines the phenomenon of wilful blindness. Drawing on a wide array of sources from psychological studies and social statistics to interviews with the relevant protagonists she examines what it is about human nature which makes us so prone to wilful blindness.

127 Hours Reading Group Guide

This reading group guide for 127 Hours includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion.

127 Hours Trailer

Between a Rock and a Hard Place… On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day’s hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he’d hike for a few hours and then head off to work.

Read an extract from Star

In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty.

Read Chapter One here on Bookhugger…

Peter Hook’s The Hacienda App

As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week…

Read an extract from Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Fair

Mireille Guiliano’s book, Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Fair, is about helping women (and a few men, peut-etre) feel good about themselves, being challenged and engaged in our working lives, and always looking for pleasure in every single day.