Richard Layard, an economist, has written a study into how society can be happier. He has long promoted happiness as a better measure of society's progress than GDP.

Ariana Neumann (left) wrote When Time Stopped: A Memoir Of My Father's War about Hans (right), her doting Dad. It started when she found an old ID card tucked away.

Michael Coveney celebrates amateur theatricals in a fascinating new book. The theatre critic estimates that there are around 2,500 amateur dramatic societies in Britain.

Kate Murphy shares advice for improving your listening skills in a new book. The author who lives in the U.S, claims we're encouraged to listen to our guts, but rarely to listen carefully to others.

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel draws on love, grief, loneliness, fear, separation, anger, jealousy, frustration in This Too Shall Pass and the demands that each issue comes with.

Award-winning short-story writer Persaud has developed one of her stories into this intricate examination.

Sebastian Barry is currently reading Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time by Gaia Vince. He said he was unable to read until he was eight.

Tamsin Westhorpe is the head gardener at Stockton Bury in Hertfordshire. The former journalist has penned a diary account of the four-acre garden that has been in her family for five generations.

Timmy Mallett is currently reading Peace In War by Edward Seago, The TV presenter said he would take The Secret Footballer series to a desert island.

Biographer Hugo Vickers said he would take A. G. Macdonell's satirical interwar novel England, Their England, with him on a desert island.

Novelist Annalena McAfee said she would take Palgrave's Golden Treasury on a desert island. She said she is currently reading Self-Portrait, the memoir of the artist Celia Paul.

Rachel Johnson reveals the challenges of life in the public eye and behind the scenes of the 'Westminster bubble' in her book, Rake's Progress, My Political Midlife Crisis.

Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh's A Madness Of Sunshine. The American fantasy novelist revealed that she would take Sally Thorne's The Hating Game to a desert island.

Jonathan Bate has penned a biography about the life of poet William Wordsworth. Author says William who was born in Cumberland did his best work after meeting Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Anne Tyler has recently finished reading Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows. The American novelist revealed that she would take Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples to a desert island.

When 11-year-old Elly disappears, last seen riding her bike to the sports field, she is presumed dead

Irish author Mark O'Connell, speaks to people from across the globe who are preparing for the end of the world in a new book, including one who claims a rogue planet will crash into earth.

Tim Dee examines how swallows migrate across Africa to Europe each year, in a new nature book. He begins his travels in the Sahara desert, where the birds are heading northwards.

Robert Webb is currently reading Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking. The British novelist revealed he would take Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy stories by Douglas Adams to a desert island.

Amanda Owen is currently reading The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak And High Society Scandal In Kenya by Frances Osborne. The British writer would take Swaledale to a desert island.

Emily Gunnis is currently reading Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey. The British writer would take The Wicked Wit Of Winston Churchill to a desert island.

Tom Standage reveals a series of fascinating little-known facts in a new book. The UK-based deputy editor of The Economist examines facts and figures, including what causes happiness.

Hamnet is Maggie O'Farrell's first foray into historical fiction, and, as with her contemporary work. It follows Hamnet, the young, day-dreamy son of William Shakespeare.

Marine scientist and science communicator Ellen Prager explores hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and also climate change in her book Dangerous Earth.

Former paratrooper Dan Jarvis, who is now Labour MP for Barnsley Central, has penned a memoir revealing the horrors of war and the heart-wrenching death of his first wife Caroline.

Clare Hastings reflects on the life of her mother Ann Scott-James in a new memoir. The journalist who read at Oxford, once continued a dinner party although her husband had collapsed.

Lamorna Ash who took a break from her career in London as a playwright, spent months living with Cornish fishermen for a new book. Almost everyone she met has lost someone to the sea.

Darren Coffield has written an oral history of The Colony Room, a shabby and cluttered little space at the top of a dingy staircase in the heart of Soho.

New book Lives Of Houses, features a collection of essays and poems on the houses of an eclectic selection of people. Among them is WH Auden's 1950s apartment in New York

Hadley Freeman reflects on the life of her paternal grandmother Sara Glass, in a fascinating new biography. Sara who was born in Paris, moved to New York with the imminent threat of war.

A gripping new biography by Paul Gormam, reflects on the life of Malcolm McLaren. The Sex Pistols creator who grew up in North London, was taught by his grandmother 'to be bad is good'.

Laurence Dillon who had an orchidectomy for testicular cancer, explores the history of eunuchs around the world in a gripping memoir.

Jeffrey Rediger who is a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, has penned a book about wellness. American author calls for Western doctors to embrace the 'medicine of hope'.

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Georgina Le Grice is no stranger to horror stories, but she never expected to find herself in one when her family's picturesque 18th-century property was falling apart, and there was no money to save it.

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Discover something new this National Wine Month with Freixenet, the UK’s favourite sparkling wine, who is offering one lucky winner the chance to win its delicious Cava for a year

It takes a while to get into this book because first you have to navigate a prologue and not one but two forewords, the first by the author’s 11-year-old grandson, who reveals that at 4 a.m. without make-up Stephanie Beacham has green skin, witch-like hair and gives him nightmares, muses JOHN HARDING

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The two women, whose names have been withheld, says they were abused on multiple times by science teacher Dan Witters and accuse the Moraga School District of covering it up.

The lucky escape occurred in Utah this Friday, and if that were not extraordinary enough, the entire incident was caught on camera.

From cut-price Dreamliners and tented cities to SeaWorld's sales plunge: Take a look at the business stories that got us talking this week

The fires tearing through Santa Rosa and Walton counties have scorched thousands of acres of woods, razed dozens of structures, including homes, and forced some 1,600 people to evacuate.