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Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and...

Empress Marie (1847-1928) lived one of the most dramatic lives of any princess who sat on the Russian throne. Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark she was betrothed to Tsarevitch Nicholas...

This portrait of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great British architect, aims to show us the man behind the legend. Wren was a founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the...

"He is our Dante . . . writing a modern masterpiece about his journey into Hell . . . [that is] unique in the literature of the Holocaust." - USA...

In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria , A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of...

The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...

Madame Sadayakko was the ultimate geisha, so exquisite that the prime minister of the day paid a fortune to deflower her. But she was a rebel who wanted to carve...

Anne Neville was queen to Englanda s most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalised by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a...

The story of how three individuals conquered the plague of the sea. A lively recounting of how three determined individuals overcame the constraints of 18th century thinking to solve the...

The story of how three individuals conquered the plague of the sea. A lively recounting of how three determined individuals overcame the constraints of 18th century thinking to solve the...

Carolly Erickson brings to life the complex, charming, ever-resilient Josephine, from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.'

One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance. Written by a friend, fellow painter and fellow Florentine. Now in a fully...

'I have lost everything in coming here. I have lost my friends... I have probably lost my position; I shall probably have to remove my child from the school and...

A president-to-be chronicles the life and times of the historic first Chief Executive in this insightful biography. Noted educator and historian Woodrow Wilson profiles George Washington's rise to leadership, providing...

An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives...

The first account of one of history's most notorious con artists, Victor Lustig, written by acclaimed biographer Christopher Sandford. An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, Victor Lustig was a man...

THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a...

Jock Lewes was a dashing young Welsh Guards officer who created a new approach to modern warfare in the SAS with less than two year's experience as a soldier. By...

This is the story of Hanns Scharff the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War...

The first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design. Yet this self-taught son of a...

This is an outline of the history of the Macmillan family, its rise, triumphs and misfortunes. The core of the book is the personality and career of Harold Macmillan, but...

The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of the Third Reich....

An authentic and entertaining first-hand account of life in the Australian bush from the 1920s to the 1950s. Under the Mulga follows Jim Gasteen's childhood adventures, marriage and his life-long...

In "The Ring And The Wolf", Gottfried Wagner chronicles his family's connection with National Socialism, from his great-grandfather's anti-Semitic pamphlets to his father's, uncle's and grandparent's close relationship with Adolf...

The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother,...

Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Long after...

In Heroes, historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents his personal selection of the 101 most heroic figures from the pages of world history. Emperors and queens, soldiers and statesmen, religious leaders...

One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Michaelangelo's magnificent sculpture of him is...

The pre-eminent Victorian was Joseph Paxton who bestrode the worlds of horticulture, urban planning, and architecture like a colossus. He was a self-taught polymath who had a solution to every...

The life of Sir William Hamilton is rich in contradictions: hedonist, scholar and an aesthete with a Rabelaisian streak, he represented the epitome of honourable public service until, as the...

The book titled Clinton: The President They Deserve by the author Martin Walker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When the third Marquess of Bute (1847-1900) met the renowned Gothic designer William Burges it marked the start of a lifetime's collaboration with architects and artists, producing work ranging from...

The book titled Flora MacDonald: The Most Loyal Rebel by the author Hugh Douglas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Of all Europe's post-revolutionary leaders, Vaclav Havel has had the most extraordinary career. He opposed the Soviet-backed Czechoslovakian regime through writing rather than action, and spent the preceding years in...

'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak...

Based on hundreds of interviews with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, including Arafat himself, this book examines his once triumphant transition from terrorist to statesman, and his subsequent marginalization following...

In the crammed and dizzying space of two years, from June 1924 to June 1926, America was transfixed by three contrasting courtroom trials. Each was described as a 'Trial of...

A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million visitors trek to view her portrait in the...

Biography of Cellini

An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe A captivating portrait of number-one...

Few figures in British history have been so deeply and so consequentially involved with the British royal family as Winston Spencer Churchill. While numerous men of stature have advised kings...

A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality...

Two old friends end up on opposite sides of the English Civil War, in this scintillating history At the Inns of Court, the intellectual, literary, and social heart of early...

According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and made him swear eternal hatred of Rome. Whether the...

Nancy Mitford's account of this famous love affair of the Enlightenment is, in the author's own words, 'a shriek from beginning to end' The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous...