Golf has given me an understanding of the futility of life’
Aubrey Eban
‘There can be little doubt that one of Job’s chief trials was that his wife insisted on playing golf with him’
P. G. Wodehouse
‘Ken...
David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first of his shipboard adventures. A journey which takes him across the world and back, from the Southern States of America, through...
‘When Tim Elliott heard about Jesulin, a talented young Adonis dubbed “the Beckham of bullfighting”, he knew he had to meet him.’
It all began when Tim read a newspaper story about a bullfighter who was...
The behaviour of a Siamese cat is never predictable, as all owners well know. The calm of the Tovey household is once again torn to shreds when Doreen’s cat Seeley instantly loathes the new arrival, Shebalu,...
‘My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person - he believed in me.’ Jim Valvano
Your Dad is an inspiration: someone who teaches and protects you in the early years, who offers...
Football: a game of 22 men chasing ball and in the end the Germans always win’ Gary Lineker' In 1945, German soldier Bert Trautmann escapes from capture by the Red Army only to be caught by the British...
On 24 February 1994, the police turned up at 25 Cromwell Street, an ordinary three-story house in central Gloucester, with a warrant to dig up the back garden. The door was answered by Stephen West, the...
At one moment you seem to be in the Lake District; then you could be on the moon; then you are in a wilderness; and then beside a Norwegian fjord.’ When Edward decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted...
This is suicide!' Manuel screamed frantically. So begins an amazing true story of a journey to Antarctica in a 27-foot sailing boat. After travelling through South America to Tierra del Fuego, the only...
The English tongue has never tasted more delicious than in the mouth of Stephen Fry: his chokingly brilliant sesquipedalian prose is like a shaft of sunlight through the drizzle of quotidian language....