Went hunting for red deer last week in Te Urewera National Park - well actually a private block that adjoins the national park - no boundaries though.

There are many things to like about this 1972 Ideal toy commercial: 1. The Jean-Jacques Perrey background music. 2. The black set. 3. The announcer's voice. 4. The name of the toy: Bing Bang Boing. 5. The toy itself, which

Chapter One: Josephine's Debts

Stephen Abell reviews The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

Tim Lott reviews We-Think by Charles Leadbeater

Guy Dammann reviews Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf

Alexander Waugh reviews Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Risk by Dan Gardner

A French scholar tells Tim Martin how he came to collaborate with one of his country's greatest writers after an unexpected discovery in the national library .

Tip And Run; Bomber Boys; Decency And Disorder; Welcome To Everytown; Engleby; The Lizard Cage

Judith Flanders reviews Clean: An Unsanitized History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg

Tom Holland reviews Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman

Jim Endersby reviews The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll

Lynn Barber reviews The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes by Stephen Robinson

Tash Aw reviews Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

Heather Thompson reviews One of Us by Melissa Benn

Melanie McDonagh reviews Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers

Helen Brown reviews Once Upon a Time in England by Helen Walsh

Ed Lake reviews The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow