Japanese innovation, Costa Rican skullduggery, Glasgow Central suicide, and good deeds punished in London

MAT COWARD takes a look at some of the options for keen gardeners as we enter 2026

A deeply pleasing festive crime wave

A WWI hero, renowned ornithologist, medical doctor, trade union organiser and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain all rolled in one. MAT COWARD tells the story of a life so improbable it was once dismissed as fiction

MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation

Commiserations if you failed this year, MAT COWARD offers six points which, if followed religiously, will ensure you succeed next year

AI-induced murder, last rites for the mob-dog, a gullible common herd, and an exemplary Christmas chiller

MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation

MAT COWARD advocates cultivating blackberries, a growing in popularity crop for gardens and allotments

MAT COWARD reminds us that the resilience of ordinary folk can turn the tables on the mighty and 'entitled'

AI shenanigans, tinnitus hallucinations, Jeckyll&Hyde in a locked room, and size doesn’t matter

A Nazi zeppelin whodunnit, death amidst detoxification, a twistaholic’s delight, and noir fiction for criminals