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At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were selected to design, cut and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop - cal...

Allan Ahlberg was adopted as a baby. In 1938 he was picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. Now he is one of the most successful children's book writers in the world. In 'The Bucket' he describes an oddly enchanted childhood lived out in an industrial...

When Ben Aitken heard that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday, including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, 16 pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for £100 pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. ...

George Alagiah was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Ghana. His family came to Britain in the 1960s. This is his story, going to school in Portsmouth and gradually discovering his immigrant identity.

This is the true story of the Afghanistan cricket team and their extraordinary attempt to join the world's elite cricketing nations. That this devastated nation should be able to field a cricket team at all, let alone one as successful as this, is an unbelievable achievement.

Set in the wild and remote landscape of Eday, part of the Orkney archipelago, 'Close to Where the Heart Gives Out' is an unflinchingly honest and moving tale of rural life, from the only doctor on the island.

'Explorer' is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet - at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote communities who inhabited them. It is also the story of why, thirty years later, he is still exploring.

On a rainy December day in 1992, Isabel Allende and her family went to the forest near their home in northern California to scatter her daughter Paula's ashes to the wind. This text recounts the intimate and heartfelt story of what happened to them in the years that followed Paula's death.

Doctors Hugh and Alice Alport are an English couple who went to Northern Ireland on a short-term contract - several decades ago. In 'Doctor! Doctor!' they recall how they have forged a lifelong relationship with the rural community they served.

The enthralling story of an extraordinary princess who became a sufragette and revolutionary, who lived through some of the most eventful times in British and Indian history.