Justin Ruthven-Tyers talks about his book Phoenix from the Ashes

After a fire destroyed their house, Justin and his wife Linda irrationally decided to build a 15-ton classic yacht, as complete amateurs – starting with the trees.

A Bizarre But True Tale of Androids, Kill Switches, and Left Luggage

Read an extract from Losing the Head of Philip K. Dick, by David Duffy for a chance to win one of five copies, courtesy of One World Publications.

An extract from Phoenix from the Ashes

After a fire destroyed their house, Justin and his wife Linda irrationally decided to build a 15-ton classic yacht, as complete amateurs – starting with the trees…

An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent…

Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent of Antarctica.

An extract from Then They Came For Me

Read an extract from Then They Came For Me, a story of injustice and survival in Iran’s most notorious prison, out this month via One World Publications.

Discover Then They Came For Me

A story of injustice and survival in Iran’s most notorious prison, Then They Came For Me, is published today.

Watch the author, Maziar Bahari, discuss his experiences.

An extract from Cairo

Read an extract of Cairo, Ahdaf Soueif’s account of the revolution and a personal journey into the city of her childhood.

Biography is Dead…

The grand literary biography, alongside the Booker winner, used to be the jewel on an editor’s list. But those days seem to have gone… but according to Faber’s Neil Belton, every once in a while a biographer comes along with a fascinating yet overlooked life, and the potential is clear to all.

Joseph Galliano on putting Dear Me together

The original UK edition took three months to compile, an Irish edition took two months, but the American version of the book (released in the UK as Dear Me, More Letters To My Sixteen Year Old Self) was an altogether more marathon task…

An extract from Henry’s Demons

Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story.

On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry waded into the lethally cold Newhaven estuary and almost drowned. The trees, he said, had told him to do it.

An extract from Rifleman, by Victor Gregg, with Rick Stroud

This is the story of a true survivor.

A Front-line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall…

More Pyg…

More from the star of the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, a beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…

Introducing Pyg, or, Toby the Pig…

This, the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, is the beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…

My Father’s Fortune

‘It took him quite a long time to accept that I had some other qualities, abilities, to write and so forth, which in his eyes never really made up for lack of sporting ability, but eventually we found some sort of common ground.’

Stefan Merrill Block on The Storm at the Door

The Storm at the Door’s central characters are the author’s grandparents, including a grandfather that the author never knew. A grandfather whose battles with depression would mirror those of the novelist many decades later. Read on for an interview with Stefan Merrill Block.

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.

Discover The Paper Garden

Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage.

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.

Babysitting George

‘So George Best walks into a pub…’ Howls of laughter drown out the punch line, and for the first time since I heard the news of his death I smile. George would have liked that one.

Celia Waldon on her unusual relationship with one of the most famous footballers ever.

Watch the trailer for Neil Strauss’ Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead

Neil Strauss, author of The Game and dubbed ‘the Mike Tyson of rock’n'roll celeb therapy-journalism’, delves into the psyche of the world’s most famous rock stars in Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead.

Goodbye Sarajevo

Watch an interview with Atka Reid and Hana Schofield, the authors of Goodbye Sarajevo, published in May by Bloomsbury.

A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival.

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.