New accounts of working in a man’s world ... Books to Read This Spring A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion ...

World Book Day is all about celebrating ... This is an urgent, important book written at a dramatic moment in American and global history, this work from one of our most important writers is ...

To celebrate Black History Month this year ... “I felt myself swept away into an unfamiliar, yet real, world. It’s one of the best books I have ever read.” And for a more recent read ...

Flores’s new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It’s a blast. A new book by Steve Oney traces the public radio network’s turbulent history as ...

Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the real stories in what doesn’t March 13, 2025 8:30 a.m. Behind the ...

We were live to primary schools across the UK for World Book Day 2024! What is World Book Day and when is it? World Book Day took place on 7 March 2024 and is a worldwide celebration of books and ...

Join us for a special KS2 science Live Lesson during British Science Week, hosted by Grace Webb and Greg Foot where we find out what it takes to become an astronaut. British Astronaut Tim Peake ...

Group exhibition showcasing diverse works by 19 distinguished women artists, held during library hours through March 30, ...

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson A mix of history and true crime, The Devil in the White City is a captivating book for those who love documentaries about serial killers and historical ...

Hong Kong schools remove books that may violate ... Catholic leaders around the world were so upset by the novel’s depictions of the Church’s history that the Vatican even appointed someone ...

Founding and leading a small independent children’s book publishing company in today’s Internet-driven, Instagram-obsessed era is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for anyone unwilling to fly head ...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions reimagines the Mahabharata from Draupadi’s perspective, blending history, mythology ... ambitious woman shaped by her circumstances. With rich ...