True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival

A superb study brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew but...

During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to fe...

A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a...

A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a...

Seventy-Four animals have won the Dicken Medal, the highest award for animal bravery. Their inspiring stories are told, for the first time in one b...

The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilberts remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a p...

It was like going through a door which had been locked all my life. I had walked past it every single day, afraid to even rattle the handle. Now I ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 Grippingly vivid and p...

Superbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that time Financial Times'Gripping and important' Observer _________________...

Mention female spies, and most people think of Mata Hari. But during the Roaring Twenties, Marguerite Harrison and Stan Harding were the cause cele...

From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care.Parents Angelina and Ben ex...

An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds.'Abdul is dign...

In 1922 a journalist commented on British tenacity to General Bruce, leader of the British Everest Expedition. Bruce replied with a single word: 'S...

In 1933, a ten-year-old Jewish girl, Fela Perelman, befriended a new family that had moved into her street in Lodz, Poland. There were three childr...