Based on his award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, Mark Steel's 'In Town', is a celebration of the quirks of small town life in a country of increasingly homogenize

For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel, bestselling a

Comedian Mark Steel has spent most of his life a committed, signed-up member of the Socialist Workers Party. The Labour Party coming to power in 1997 could have

In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraor

Examines the business, labor, and human history of Homestead, Pennsylvania, the heart of the American steel industry.