The Six Book Challenge will be piloted for the first time by the Army thanks to a kickstart from our Ambassador Andy McNab.

Hundreds of people turned out on Saturday to see the author, musician and broadcaster, Jarvis Cocker formally open a new library in Wakefield. Jarvis talked about his own experience of libraries and what they meant to him.

The winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize is Circulation by Thomas Wright. Circulation is the biography of William Harvey, the first person to accurately describe how blood circulates through the human body.