Thatcher stole my trousersIn 1971 comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to go on telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever, but a 19 year old Marxist art student with a bizarre concern for the health of British manufacturing was slowly coming to meet them. Through the next decade Alexei Sayle would be a student at Chelsea Art School, a clerk in a DHSS office, one of London's bottom ten freelance illustrators, a school dinner

Nadiya questions the barriers that many women

Nurses have never been more important

printed with the red logo of Safeway

Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks

bankrupts given a chance to make good

Among the treasures to display are an Egyptian sarcophagus

At last in B-format paperback

from Angela Nguyen's own imagination

of Prague Spring and Cold War winter

Readers will learn what happens if you die on an aeroplane

The Secret Footballer will guide you through formations

Because someone in the villa is prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden