Biography: General

Infamous Nazi war criminal Dr Aribert Heim carried out grotesque, sadistic medical experiments on Jewish prisoners at the Mauthausen concentration ...

John Terry, footballing legend and Chelsea hero, graduated from Chelsea youth academy to become an international star. His imposing strength, natur...

As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all time, the man wh...

Rachael Hanels name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasnt at all unusual in her world: her father was a grave...

From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boys childhood and its intersection with the rise o...

In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors. The summers and winters he spent there were full o...

To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country s harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individuals ...

Son of a scientifically-minded Scottish aristocrat, Basil Hall joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13 in 1802. His first naval engagements in Ameri...

Hugh was born in Oxford, and his father, WGRM 'Ran' Laurie, was a doctor who won a gold medal in the coxless pairs at the 1948 Olympics. Hugh follo...

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the p...

Forty years ago, when television legend Susan Lucci first joined the cast of All My Children, she had only expected to appear on the show every oth...

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what scholars of li...