Biography

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first fil...

This book is about a young girl who dreams of being a nurse and travelling to far flung countries of the world in a time when travelling was done m...

Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the role of the simple man, eating with ...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Mi...

Part biography and part cultural history, this splendid book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life, but also her literary lega...

A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty year...

Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to li...

This book is about the life and times of a Scottish actor, Iain McColl. Best know as Tam in City Lights and Dodie in Rab C. Nesbitt. Iain was b...