On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road TripNogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40 foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled

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A thrilling re-evaluation of the creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million years by one of the world's leading paleontologists

In a centuries-old tradition

George Eliot fashions a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism of the age

Forget the blur of a life lived too fast

Do you have what it takes to make it to the grand final

Written as he talks

Today he doesn't believe them

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from the Iron Age to the Cold War

from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard