An adventure into the world of children’s literature as celebrity presenters share what they love about their favourite books, with animations that bring the stories to life. These clips are ...

These clips are taken from the series Virtually There Spain. Suitable for: Key Stage 2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Level 1 and 2 in Scotland or beginners in Spanish of any age.

Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel. Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising ...

By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...

The advice given when there’s a long and strong earthquake is to “get gone” because of the potential tsunami risk, but would you know where to “get gone” to? That’s why this week Hawke ...

The quake and resulting tsunami could be devastate the Pacific Northwest, killing an estimated 14,000 people and injuring more than 100,000 in Oregon and Washington, according to the Federal ...

We looked up the highest-rated books on Goodreads so you don't have to! Here are the top picks from the book-review site to help you meet your resolution to read more. Our editors and experts ...

His book, a marvellous accounting that covers many moments of high drama, also usefully lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible, from executive orders and ...

Now that we have poems available for free on the internet, as well as seemingly countless poets to choose from, it can be challenging to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan's inauguration the timing seemed too good to be true. Den of Spies ...

She also photographed and made films during that time and includes in her book black-and-white and color photos as well as a few reproductions off her watercolor paintings. Those five years were ...

“We often don’t know what causes individual undersea landslides, but we do know that some of these are vast, greater than 5 cu km in size, and can potentially generate tsunami waves up to 5 ...