Collected Biographies

In this inspiring and diverse book, Sam Maggs lends her signature wit and warmth to profiles of some of history's most influential female forces. S...

Pat Stanton is a Hibs legend. With his silky skills and natural leadership, Pat captained Hibs to three trophies and later went on to manage the te...

Updateddetailed biographies of the 12 actors who have played the Time Lord, including the latest, Peter CapaldiDoctor Who is the world's longest-ru...

Sounds of Glory Volume One is packed with brilliant stories from the biggest names in rock and metal.The New Wave of British Heavy Metal erupted in...

Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragett...

One womans investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love. All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolsons was no differ...

'Are your twins normal?' Mrs Pullein-Thompson was asked. 'Good God, I hope not,' she retorted. The twins were Diana and Christine who, with their ...

No journalist is better situated to reckon with the psychology of war than New York Times bestselling author David Finkel. In Thank You for Your Se...

Have you heard of Frederick Hervey, the atheist Bishop of Derry who hated church bells? What about Samuel Boyce, the poet who couldn''t afford trou...

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...