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For those of us who were brought up on inspiring Ladybird books about the great lives of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh and Admiral Nelson, and who despair at the way today’s children are being taught to despise their own history,…

GRAND: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GROMIT As told to Nick Park (Ebury Spotlight £22, 272pp) By NEIL ARMSTRONG Published: 13:30 EDT, 29 October 2026 | Updated: 13:30 EDT, 29 October 2026 <!-- -->…

 A History Of The World In Ten Wars by Terry Deary (Bantam £22, 304pp) is available now from the Mail Bookshop By KATHARINE SPURRIER Published: 05:30 EDT, 25 October 2026 | Updated: 05:30 EDT, 25 October 2026 …

 Hyperscale by Paris Marx (Profile Books £22, 320pp) is available now from the Mail Bookshop By NICK RENNISON Published: 05:45 EDT, 25 October 2026 | Updated: 05:59 EDT, 25 October 2026 <!-- -->…

It’s hard to believe, but the family of Elon Musk – today officially the world’s wealthiest man – were once penniless. Elon’s mother, Maye, would worry about how to pay the monthly rent.This was because Maye was a divorcee in…

By JAMIE BUXTON Published: 04:30 EDT, 23 October 2026 | Updated: 04:30 EDT, 23 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- Other Worlds than…

By ANTHONY CUMMINS Published: 04:40 EDT, 23 October 2026 | Updated: 04:40 EDT, 23 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- GJAK by…

By JAMES CAREY-DOUGLAS Published: 04:50 EDT, 23 October 2026 | Updated: 04:50 EDT, 23 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- Death Comes…

The Elegant Hustler by Celia Imrie (Sphere £25, 288pp)  By YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM Published: 05:00 EDT, 23 October 2026 | Updated: 05:00 EDT, 23 October 2026 <!-- --> <!-- …

In 1938, Neville Chamberlain famously met Hitler and returned claiming that he had won ‘peace for our time’.But, in private, the two men had taken a dim view of one another.Chamberlain described Hitler as ‘the commonest little dog . . .…