Collected Biographies

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history  Eye-opening, engrossingBrit Ben...

The gruesome stories of the hardest, most ruthless rugby players from around the world since World War I. As talented as they were fiery, many were...

Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectaria...

Just eighteen months after two Frenchmen made the worlds first ever flight, a fearless British woman hopped into a flimsy balloon and flew across t...

'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine PeakeRobin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays All ...

In Baring Witness, Holly Welker and thirty-six Mormon women write about devotion and love and luck, about the wonder of discovery, and about the jo...

Twelve years since The Daily Telegraph Airmen''s Obituaries Book Two was published, Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork, has compiled ninety-one obituar...

''Beautifully woven'' Sunday Times''Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York ...

'In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicl...

The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today When Calvin Tom...

Language Teachers Professional Knowledge Landscapes is a collection of fourteen narratives from teachers of different languages, at different schoo...

The American Sniper legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new bookLife leads us through difficult terrain....

There have been fifty-four Prime Ministers in Britain, from Sir Robert Walpole to Theresa May, and this volume will explore each of them in varying...

Ursula Matthews was born in Transylvania, in 1943. Her story; this story, covers European historical events, which shattered her family and communi...

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten...

_Balloonomania Belles_ reveals the astonishing stories of the fabulous female pioneers of balloon flight. More than a century before the first aero...

This is an absorbing and comprehensive family history, spanning over eight generations, from agricultural roots in Oxfordshire and the counties of ...

Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The Presidents Keepers, he spent ye...

As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individu...

This fascinating volume resulted from one mans frustration with the series of whitewashed obituaries and laudations he had to endure in his long ca...

This book is an attempt to place the Wolfe Tones, arguably Ireland''s most popular and internationally successful folk and ballad band, in its poli...

The only British-born boxer to have won the world heavyweight crown was Bob Fitzsimmons, who reigned from 1897-1899. Since then, a host of challeng...

NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstei...

Sobresaliente relato acerca de un proyecto de investigación sobre la bioenerciencia conocimiento intuicional y una forma específica de interacción ...

Remarkable story of a research project on the bioenerscience intuitional knowledge and a particular way of interaction with the bioenergemal (`sp...

A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured the Great Stink across one hot summer While 1858 i...

PEOPLE OF RAS AL KHAIMAH is an important book. It captures the inimitable atmosphere of the city and its natural environments - the mountains, the ...

'Beautifully woven' Sunday Times'Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York sto...

Babies are born every day, but only once or twice in a lifetime a child arrives who will inherit the throne. In the summer of 2013, the nation watc...

Fisherman Mark Spitzer takes readers on an action-packed investigation of the most fierce and fearsome freshwater grotesques of the American West e...

The Incredible String Band lit up the late 1960s music scene with their groundbreaking LPs The 5000 Spirits..., The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter an...

Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the 50 most influential British men and women of the...

An important and timely book Philippa GregoryPoignant, unique and thought-provoking All About HistoryThis introduces new readers, in the most acc...

The enthralling story of an eighteenth-century family and their extraordinary achievements.Four brothers, three sisters. Brought up in a Northumber...

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, none ...