Collected Biographies

Everyone loves a romantic rogue whose exciting exploits feature a cheeky disregard for the law, narrow escapes and lots of love interest. Even at t...

When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prop...

Much has been written and reported on the broad canvas of the history of County Wexford over the centuries, but Famous Wexfordians seeks to revital...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...

Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to ...

What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elboroug...

A detailed chronicle of this quirky band that rose to fame in the mid-seventies and are still touring today. Based around the in-depth interviews w...

This engrossing and often witty account tells the life stories of some 70 individuals who made the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes a...

'Wonderfully readable ... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of up...

A Holocaust survivor whose mother collapsed and died only moments after they both registered as survivors, a death row inmate who has reclaimed his...

From one of Mexicos most important writers, a memoir about three generations of men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional live...

The history of women in the opera is a grand story. Women were singers and patrons, of course, but from opera's beginnings in Renaissance Italy,...

Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Sovie...

A unique tribute to often overlooked women who have left an indelible mark on Gospel Musicpowerful talents who overcame racism and sexism to define...

More Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of even more of the Old West's most nefarious...

Beautifully Said is a female-forward collection of 21 themed chapters of quotes and stories from brilliant, brave, captivating women and girls. Loo...

Children of Mercury is a bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters, viewed through the lens of The Seven Ages of Man, a widespread belie...

This remarkable book provides an account of the history of Ireland like weve never seen before. Told through the prism of the lives of twenty-one e...

A Times Book of the Year 2019''You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it'' Sunday Times''A remarkable work and an important addition ...

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives ...

In The Kinfolk Entrepreneur, author Nathan Williams introduces readers to 40 creative business owners around the globe, offering an inspiring, in-d...

The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook and Daniel McCook, Jr.--members of a prominent Ohio family kno...

To wander into St Werburgh's is to enter a glorious church, the first Mass celebrated here by Cardinal Manning on Christmas Day 1875. Its Solemn Op...

From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, the true story of the Intrigue and Infighting of Conde Nast, Anna Wintour, S...

Born This Way shares and celebrates all kinds of growing up LBGTQ stories through personal memories and childhood photographs. With more than 100 p...

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...

'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT'THE PERF...