The searchersIn the great revolutionary year of 1968, Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties, and he was restless. While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world, Westminster politics seemed stuck. It was time, he decided, for a different approach. Over the next half century, the radicalized Benn helped forge a new left in Britain. He was joined by four other politicians, who would become comrades, collaborators and

and I am no good with boats

and to celebrate

2035: In the shadow of a race course

He would write in the belief that after this season the game might never be quite the same again

' bestselling author Santa Montefiore

it threatens to derail everything she loves

The first book to fully recognise and tell the tale of the efforts of the Lumberjills - the Women's Timber Corps - during the Second World War

she holds up her mirror and Gary reads the words 'HELP ME' scrawled in sticky black letters on the glass

a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a period of sick leave back in an England blind to the horrors of the First World War

For the very first time

for the vast majority of us

peopled by a cast of heroines