Arse-Up Creek

Al Lester

Another collection of outrageous hunting yarns from the master of the genre, 'Big Al' Lester. A jet boat trip gone disastrously wrong, kamikaze deer, the Hermit of Fiordland, a pigeon called Tegal, the sacred eel - these are just some of the rollicking stories told by 'Big Al' and his mates. Plenty of l...

The True History of the Blackadder: The Unadulterated Tale of the Creation of a Comedy Legend

J. F. Roberts

British history as we know it is a cluttered patchwork of questionable stories which have been re-written, re-evaluated and ridiculed, and yet there is still an unquestioned narrative thread which runs through the nation's historical record, accepted as fact. But final editorial control has always belon...

The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLSDo you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our timesOn 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst o...