The North PoleThroughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole. This is an otherworldly place with no latitude and no longitude, a place where the sun rises and stays aloft for six months before setting, plunging the expanse of ice and water into darkness for half a year. Long before we ever journeyed to the North Pole, human beings have wondered what the northernmost point of our planet might be like. It

the crew will face plague pits

witty and surreal view on everyday life

there are endless new flavour combinations to discover

Ian Rankin and Broadchurch

her abiding passion for music

from the rice terraces and towering karts of its battle-worn waterways

and as summer ebbs to autumn

When Mab wakes up on her birthday she's given a frilly

the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca

Neither of them is sure they can face the party

documented as never before

His travels across the country took him from the raucous port of Karachi to the gilded salons of Lahore to the lawless frontier of Waziristan