Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This book isn't like other cycling books.

In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father.

The word 'chastity', at first sight, may seem intimidating, something to be dismissed out of hand. It is, however, something very different to celibacy. At a time when religion is in decline in the Western world and when it often seems that the se

Forgiveness is a lovely idea, wrote C. S. Lewis, and in recent decades it has been seen and admired in situations ranging from therapy to politics, and proposed as a constructive pathway in the aftermath of abuse and atrocity. Not everyone is impress

Archbishop Justin Welby sets out to identify the values that will enable us to reimagine, and to enact, a more hopeful future.

Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago - home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain's largest mammals disappeared.

We should all know exactly where our meat comes from. But what if you took this modern day maxim to its logical conclusion?

Politicians, priests, generals and football managers have all long known the value of a good quotation or a stirring comment that really gets people motivated.