The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas EvansIn upstate New York, a 13 year old girl and her horse are hit by a 40 ton truck. They both survive, but suffer horrible injuries. When the girl's mother hears about a man said to have the gift of healing troubled horses, they set off for distant Montana, where their lives are changed for ever.

Technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions

It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works

unusual at the time

hired guards

in das Haus der Großmutter

His language has a purity of line

or loved one

Elizabeth Bard finds that learning to cook and building a new life have a lot in common

In summer 2006

award-winning author Richard Holmes charts the voyages of discovery – astronomical

prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings

sometimes it's nice to have a set of mismatched glassware for the table