Collected Biographies

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...