
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Book
New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The...

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
Book
Adventure writer Richard Grant takes on "the most American place on Earth" the enigmatic, beautiful,...

Letters from an American Farmer
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur and Susan Manning
Book
'to the European, the American is first and foremost a dollar-fiend. We tend to forget the emotional...

Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before
Book
The full story of one of Hollywood's most accomplished character actresses. Moviegoers know her as...

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Any More)
Book
Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are...
The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche
Book
The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed...

The Gatekeeper on the Docks
Book
Nigel isn’t finding his work particularly fulfilling these days. Being a Gatekeeper to the dead...

Beren and Luthien
Book
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully...

Talking Metal
Podcast
Hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy, talk and play METAL with special guests, headbangers, and...

Mark Steel's in Town
Book
On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called...