Palaces of RevolutionThe story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

Ellen Hopper receives a letter from a dying man

but when he is arrested for a murder she is sure he didn't commit she finds herself his reluctant ally

And although the natural world has never been more under pressure

Go on an adventure and let your imagination roam from world to world

Filled with wisdom

How has it changed over the centuries

off by heart

Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz

'James Haskell: what a flanker

Perfect for escapist reading - you won't be able to put it down

or may not

thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it