If you love movies or comics, you’ve likely followed the adventures of Spider-Man, Iron Man and other superheroes.

What a bet about the price of five metals over time can teach us about resource consumption and human innovation.

A collection of essays by the late David McCullough, including some never published before, will be released this fall.

One historian's account of the past few centuries in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, has recently been igniting some changes.

Journalist Lee Hawkins details the eye-opening discoveries revealed during his search to fill in the gaps of his family ...

By Emily Eakin Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right ...

A new children’s book is hitting the shelves. “Unstoppable John” is a non-fiction book based on story of John Lewis wanting ...

John Jenkins has published his book, Quench not the Spirit, to mark the anniversary of the granting of the patent by King ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers. By Sadie Stein Edmund White seems to hold nothing back in his ...

paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same A new book examines the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty, discussing how people across social classes understood the ...

Laurence Rees asks: Are we in danger of history repeating itself? The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...