The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

David Gilmour

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and...

Meet Me at the Moon Tree

Shivaun Plozza

A tender Australian story about searching for the impossible in the places where magic and science meet.For Carina Sugden, there is nothing more special than a moon tree - a tree grown from the seeds taken on the 1971 Apollo mission into space. Her father taught her everything she knows about them. But ...