Guardian Books: 78 books

On 5 February 1958, the Guardian's football writer HD 'Donny' Davies filed his report from Yugoslavia. "At Belgrade today in warm sunshine and on a grass pitch where the last remnants of melting snow produced the effect of an English lawn flecked with daisies, Red Star and Manchester United began a battle...

May 1961: the Guardian reports on one man's struggle outside Tottenham's Town Hall. Crowds estimated at more than 40,000 lined the route as an open top bus carried the Tottenham Hotspurs team and the two cups it has won. At the Town Hall, as the team stood on the balconies before the cheering crowds,...

On 27 May 1989, the Guardian described one extraordinary moment at Anfield the night before. In the 92nd minute Lukic threw the ball to Dixon to set in train a series of events during which time almost stood still. Dixon's pass found Smith, who deftly controlled the ball before slipping it through to...

Obesity has hit epidemic levels. In the developed, and much of the developing word, it is now 'normal' to be overweight with a BMI of 25 or more. And the global population is getting fatter all the time as a powerful mix of cheap foods, social behaviours and commercial pressures drive us to the biscuit...

A new race to the North Pole is underway but not on sleds by bearded and wild-eyed adventurers looking for new challenges. The latest pioneers tend to be clean-shaven, hard-nosed salesmen in scheduled aircraft flying in to make money out of a bleak landscape. Cold is the new hot for Big Business and...

In February 2004, whilst at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg and friends created "The Facebook". What started as just a website for one university spread through academic institutions, developed into an application platform, and then became an entire web ecosystem. It has become one of the dominant forces on...

The twentieth century saw two world wars and countless other conflicts whose effects on society have been well documented. Here you will find the less familiar story of how these international struggles managed to reach into the quietest corners of the British countryside. From...

Sporting greatness is defined by more than just a haul of gold medals or championship titles. They help of course, especially if, like Usain Bolt, an athlete redefines what is possible in terms of world records or, in the case of Mark Spitz or Steve Redgrave, demonstrates a sheer dominance of their sport.But...

Simon Hattenstone has inteviewed the great and the good from all walks of life, and posed just about every imaginable question, from asking Willem Dafoe if it's true he has the biggest penis in Hollywood, to asking Woody Allen to share the secrets of his success with women when he's just so 'plain-looking'....

If cricket is a religion in India, then Tendulkar is God. Not just a deity, but the only one. When he bats a billion Indians tune in. Stadiums fill when he comes to the crease. High-class batsmen ahead of him in the batting order have been booed because the crowd cannot wait to see Sachin. And when he...

In nearly twenty years, Robert McCrum has interviewed literatures most influential subjects. In On Authors, McCrum reflects on the experience of interviewing these literary giants and collects together the very best Observer interviews.

This book tells a tale of innovation, disruption, and transformation.Mobile money, e-money, e-float, e-wallets, mobile banking, however you characterize it, is not just a cool app. Its a killer app, the first for mobile phones in the developing world. Its also a disruptive innovation that threatens incumbent...

Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents; the bleak uplands of a landscape carved out of millstone grit; townscapes of abandoned mills and shipyards; the detritus of an industrial revolution well past its sell-by date. These, all too often, are the gloomy perceptions of 'the north', the foundations...

11 April 1912: "The White Star Liner Titanic, which left Southampton for New York yesterday on her first Atlantic voyage, surpasses in size and luxury, but especially in luxury, anything else afloat, if not also the Waldorf-Astoria and the Royal Automobile Club." Despite the far worse catastrophes that...