Enemies and neighboursEver since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in 1917, Jews and Arabs have struggled for control of the Holy Land. Israel's independence in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust was a triumph for the Zionist movement but a catastrophe 'nakba' in Arabic for the native Palestinian majority. Ian Black has written a gripping, lucid and timely account of what was doomed to be an irreconcilably hostile relationship from the

personal diaries

financial ruin and royal collapse

using the Speakership to champion the rights of backbench MPs and hold the government to account

Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them

leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies concerning exercise

she soon finds herself pulling into the snowy city just a month before Christmas

Most of us are just trying to keep it together

helpful reading tips

We're talking about those meal staples we pick up without thinking - chicken breasts

Illustrated in full colour throughout by the fabulous Katie Hickey

Laura von Hoven - free-spirited beauty and wife of Nadja's boss - kills her lover and begs Nadja for her help

grief and the juggle of working motherhood