Biography

Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...

Author: Karen Olsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick A wonderful book. --Patti Smith I was riveted. Olsson is...

Author: Timothy Bentinck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the...

Author: Mariana Atencio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this much-needed book, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of...

Author: Jenna Bush Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today...

Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...

Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...

Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...

Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...

Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...

Author: Russ Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Instant National Bestseller! Wall Street Journal bestseller; USA Today bestseller; Publishers Weekly bestseller; international bestseller. An inspirational book by self-made musical superstar,...

Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...

Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...

Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was...

Author: Orry-Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume...

Author: Prof Richard Gunderman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Marie Curie coined the term 'radioactivity', and it is to her and her husband, Pierre Curie, that we owe much...

Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous...

Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years,...

Author: Danielle Jawando Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several...

Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...

Author: Ann Dunwoody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On June 23, 2008, President George W. Bush nominated Ann Dunwoody as a four-star general in the US Army,the first time...

Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...

Author: David Hare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had...

Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...

Author: Shane White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's...

Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...

Author: Steven Watts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 586 "An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans how to win friends and influence people b> efore Stephen Covey, Oprah...

Author: Debbie Harry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...

Author: Darcey Bussell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The first book from Darcey Bussell in over six years, retired darling of the British Ballet and beloved judge of Strictly...

Author: Janet Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm...

Author: Susan S. Elliott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Across the Divide recounts a 50-year journey of epic proportions in technology, from the 1960s when transistor-tube computers filled spaces...