The Man in the Red CoatIn the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The three men's lives play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic,

Recently rediscovered after 70 years

a man who was the exemplar of courtly and civilised behaviour throughout France and Europe

to rice-growing

over 300 years of the best and bravest women's travel is gathered here in a collection of stunning journeys

But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son

Between them

Cathy Newman's witty

A banker's daughter seeks the child she was forced to relinquish at birth

Both forge a connection to the world around us

the superstitions

An abridged edition of Alexandre Dumas's flamboyant tale of action and adventure in seventeenth-century France

When Myriam