Feminist History for Every Day of the YearWith an entry for every day of the year, this is an empowering and accessible celebration of women and girl's history, by bestselling author Kate Mosse.

Then the traffic lights fail

A young man called Leon records his observations and sketches

and join movie star Hedy Lamarr to bounce ideas around in between takes

Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's profound dystopian novel about a surveillance state far ahead of its time

representing every region of the British Isles

The UK's parish churches

Neurobiologist and philosopher Stefano Mancuso tells eight stories of trees that have rooted themselves in human history - from the red spruces that were made into Stradivarius' violins to the wooden ladder that solved 'The Crime of the Century'

Some of this information is easily understood

Lady Cora and Lord Silverbridge

and out-of-touch

She relives our best-beloved books

Louisa Guy is pondering her future