Michael Jackson was born in 1958. He made his musical debut aged 11 with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5, his solo career began in 1971 and he was soon dubbed the 'King of Pop'. His albums, Thriller, Off the Wall, Bad,...

A fascinating and unique insight into the mind and soul by the celebrated actor Jeff Bridges, who is a dedicated practitioner of Zen Buddhism, and renowned Zen leader, Bernie Glassman. von Bridges, Jeff und Glassman, Bernie

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of...

Lauren Bravo is a freelance journalist. She writes for The Pool, Refinery29 UK, Cosmopolitan, Guardian and Grazia. She is a pop culture addict, and die-hard nostalgic. von Bravo, Lauren

Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Businessweek, Smithsonian, Men¿s Journal, and The Atavist. He began his career in magazines and newspapers in London, where he was the editor-¿in-chief...

Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Harvard, Aslan was elected president of Harvard's chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace,...

Troubled San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart is planning a rare weekend away from the job when she gets the call. A body has been found. A woman, brutally murdered. And the cryptic note left by the body is addressed to...

A true story which looks at the life of William E. Dodd, the American ambassador to Hitler's Germany in 1933, and his family. They noticed the many changes that signalled Hitler's consolidation of power, and Dodd had little choice but to...

Five women who were killed by Jack the Ripper are imbued with the proper human complexity often removed from their parts in accounts of the notorious Victorian crime. Praised by the "Spectator" as 'an outstanding work of...

Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young. Amy's mother, Janis, knew her in a way that no-one else did, and in this warm and poignant memoir, she reveals the full story of the daughter she...

AT HOME does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying battles and wars than to what history...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is...