Harold Evans has edited everyone from battlefield reporters to Henry Kissinger. In Do I Make Myself Clear?, he provides an "indispensable guide to writing well".

Neil Hayward was at a crossroads in 2013. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit their jobs. So he went birding.

In The Card Catalog, the Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word. Mouse not required.

With a name like Peck, you almost have to be an expert on birds. Mark Peck, an ornithological expert at the Royal Ontario Museum, provides detailed and informative text to go along with stunning photographs.

John Julius Norwich has authored scores of books damned by the faint praise of being “popular” histories. This is unjust, says the Washington Times.

Charles is preparing to follow in the footsteps of his well-loved mother. Biographer Sally Bedell Smith detects a more confident, less defensive tone from the Prince of Wales.

Want to know why baseball is still popular? Says Canadian Andrew Forbes, the game's quiet rhythm has a therapeutic effect on the modern, distracted mind.

Looking for a good read? Chasing Portraits is "a page-turning personal history of one woman's search for her grandfather’s artistic legacy."

At the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, medals were awarded for popinjay shooting, a popular Flemish pastime. Politics in sport, it seems, is nothing new.

Father David Bauer changed lives at the rink, in the classroom, and in the pulpit. Along the way, he created the first truly national Canadian hockey team.