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Travelling through Regency Britain in the 1800s must have been a fabulous experience and very different from today. Three generations of the Caldcleugh, Lewis and Ancrum families were lucky enough to experience the world in […]

Spoiler alert – emotions will rise when reading this fabulous new book by a brilliant Irish author. Award-winning journalist Domhnall O’Donoghue is a master craftsman when it comes to penning words and getting those feelings […]

Travel writers love to promote exotic places. The more glamour the better. So, Ben Atiken’s Sh*tty Breaks is a refreshing change from the norm. It’s not stunning places like Rome or Athens he promotes. No, […]

Con artist Violet Charlesworth was a woman before her time and able to beat the male dominated society at its own game. The beautiful young heiress to a fortune was, for a brief time during […]

South African icon Nelson Mandela created history when he became the country’s first head of state. But how many people have heard of Nongqawuse, a Xhosa prophet who is said to have received messages from […]

Being on the lower deck of life can lead to some interesting and memorable occasions. And author Bill Ferguson has certainly enjoyed a full and lively life judging by his newly released book by Whittles […]

Naturalist Adrian Shine has spent 50 years trying to crack the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. As a sympathetic sceptic, Shine has unfolded in a new book how the loch actually held the key […]

It can be a minefield to pick the right wine if you are not an expert on the subject. So, the newly published series of pocketbooks designed to help pick the right drink for the […]

Adventurer Peter Clutterbuck’s thirst for knowledge has taken him to 105 countries across seven continents. In that time, he has crossed the Atlantic and Pacific by sail, scaled previously unclimbed mountains in unexplored regions of […]