General Jacks Diary 1914-18Almost every day while serving in France and Flanders, Captain J. L. Jack kept a secret diary. It presents the detail of a regular officer's life at war during virtually the whole of World War I on the Western Front.

Joe Moran explores the hidden world of shyness

But as she learned the ropes of protocol

a reflection on a life begun amidst secrets and shame

and who has left a legacy - in the form of microscopes and Bunsen burners - for you to follow

It is a hymn to the sustaining power of women's friendship

A brother chosen

Grabbed off the street

A groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the 'Little Ice Age'

Inspired and chastened by what he has seen

an Oregon river and the Swiss Alps

Every year

his impatience over the seeming incompetence of his irritating colleague Blomquist and his concerns for the health of his hearing-impaired dog Martin