An atlas of endangered alphabetsA global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing not granted official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed. When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years sacred texts,

And 12-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home

in her 75th anniversary year

Amber Guinness travels from the Tuscan coast down through Lazio and Campania via Naples and the Amalfi Coast and on to northern Sicily

Here is Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades

The lives of the Austen sisters are recreated with a brilliant sureness of touch that can only be achieved by deep study of the period

neighbours helped each other

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which intends to protect the Earth from the environmental catastrophe caused by the human race

The clay these figures are made from was formed in deep geological time

friends and family

and friends Sam and Goose

The Throckmortons' maid Martha