Biography: General

Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But ...

Il Duce and His Women charts the main events in Mussolinis private and public life, from his humble beginnings in Romagna as the son of a blacksmit...

Marvelous. . . . Wonderfully imaginative. . . . Sparkling. -Wall Street Journal Stunning. . . . Read this book: in equal measure it will give yo...

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase I think, therefore I am. But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, th...

Inspired by her wildly popular The New York Times essay The Wedding Toast Ill Never Give, Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), clever (but ...

In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of...

Charles Mingus is one of the most important-and most mythologized-composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, ...

Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own...

________________ 'Unspeakably moving ... She deserves a medal' - Libby Purves, The Times 'One of the most powerful accounts you will ever read of...

This volume of Who Was Who contains entries for people in Who's Who who died between 1941 and 1950. It has over 10,000 entries covering deaths duri...

'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia'As rich, funny and teemingly pe...

Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's letters and journals with the writings of her friends and acquaintances, Kathleen Jone...