Bloomsbury

'If you were a sleeper, how long do you think it would takebefore you forgot who you really were? If you were living undercoverfor years and years. Which person would be you?' On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's motherdisappears into the fog. A kiss that barely touches Anna's cheek, arumble of exhaust...

Welcome back to maths class at Wayside School. How much is PEPPERS + PIG LIPS? If Jenny's shirt has sparkles on it, will Todd have egg in his hair? These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first, but you can use real maths to solve them, and the answers are perfectly logical. There are lots of clues and hints, plus all the...

My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness&'Run until you can&'t run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.&' The words of Scott Jurek, a dominant force - and darling - in the gruelling and growing sport of ultrarunning for more than a decade. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead in...

China and the World, 1100 BC to the PresentChina's story is of warfare and violence, philosophical and political invention, shining artistic achievement and often complex and subtle relations with outsiders. Harry G. Gelber's fascinating general history of this great nation makes sense of China's changing relationship with the rest...

How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global EconomyIt's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The 'Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting...

A Wartime Childhood1939. Nine year old Susie and her sister Gyll live in Watford, and all week look forward to their Saturday shopping expedition to Woolworths with their nanny, to buy something nice for Mummy. But as war breaks out in Europe, the girls are evacuated to Africa. Feeling abandoned and alone, the sisters find their new life miserable...