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Brenda Ashford spent over 60 years working as a Norland nanny. Just like a real-life Mary Poppins, Brenda devoted her life to giving children the best possible start in life. In this book, she brings to life a time when nothing was taken for granted and life itself was in peril on a near-daily ba...

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage poin...

This book tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and how one faces the inevitable fact of death.

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Which British education system struggles with 50% illiteracy? Where do teetotal Muslims attend AA meetings? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service, a c...

British prisoners have to endure the most inhumane and barbaric conditions imaginable, so why do so many of them keep going back? Former inmate and documentary maker Chris Atkins has spent the last six years tracking the fortunes of a dozen repeat offenders to understand why the state fails to ke...

David Atkin's pleasant life as a Staff Captain in Delhi ended when he was promoted to the rank of Major. Disaster ensued.

In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC. His name was David Attenborough, and the programme, 'Zoo Quest', not only heralded the start...

Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards a young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his team were ...

Margaret had just arrived in Leicester to begin her English course at the University College when she saw Fred and thought, 'You look as though you're used to getting your own way, but you're not going to get me!'. How wrong she was! Three weeks later they were firmly ivolved with each other and ...

This is the story of how, through three journeys into the wilds of Papua New Guinea, Steve Backshall realised his childhood dream of becoming an explorer. As he and the team discovered species new to science while filming the BBC's 'Lost Land of the Volcano', he felt that, for the first time, and...