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Tarantulas, Marmosets and Other Stories
For almost a decade, Gordon has lived in the Amazon basin among the indigenous people, reaching an understanding of the area and its inhabitants, and capturing on camera the …
Rupert Brooke
Since his death in the First World War, Brooke has been identified with a romantic myth of a lost world where church clocks stood still and there was eternal honey for tea. But, as …
Utterly Lost in Translation
The search for the globe's funniest language howler continues apace. As with his two previous volumes, Charlie Croker has trawled hotel foyers in Kazakhstan, South Korean …
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon is the greatest and most famous of all British war poets. Established as a writer of some merit before the Great War broke out, his near-suicidal acts of courage …
State of Fear
'Night after night througout Evin and the surrounding valley a noise rang out like thunder. At first I thought it was girders being unloaded from large trailers for constructing …
Snow Crazy
On May 6th 1903, ten men sat down to dinner at the Cafe Royal in London and started a ski club. It would become the most famous in the world - the Ski Club of Great Britain. In …
Fighting for Mandela
Priscilla Jana is a legendary figure in South African revolutionary politics. As an Indian woman who had experienced racial oppression first-hand, she decided to use her degree in …
Is it Just Me or are All Politicians Shite?
Are you bored of Brown, confused by Cameron, or maddened by Menzies Campbell? Did Blair make you despair? Would you like to give Bush the push? Are you simply infuriated by …
Oscar Wilde
"Do you want to know the great tragedy of my life? I have put all of my genius into my life; all I've put into my work is my talent." "We live in an age that knows the price of …