Biographies & Memoirs

The biography of the founder and editor of 'Eagle' magazine, read by millions throughout the 1950s and '60s. A radical priest and lover of good living as well as a journalist and publisher, Morris's life makes fascinating reading.

Memoirs from the author of the best-selling There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake.

A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh

The triumphs and tragedies of Canada's most charismatic politician

Literary critic and cultural historian E. J. Clery presents a radically new vision of the much-loved novelist, revealing how her works were shaped by an acute awareness of the economic scandals, crises and speculations that marked the Regency era.

Talks about how Christian leadership might change in the light of new cultural conditions.

A fascinating and thorough account of Charlotte and Emily Brontë's formative stay in Brussels during 1842-43 The Brontës' time in Belgium, five years before they became best-selling authors, is the least-known episode of their lives, but is a fascinating and important one. The book follows in the tracks ...

Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure. Yet her combative, inspiring life, her passionate concern for the state of the world as well as for her art, resonates with any age. This book tells her story.

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A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar - about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making.

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin.

The story of one man, a DIY DNA test and a family reunion. Guest list? Everyone.

When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives.

A rip-roaring memoir packed with salacious anecdotes by one of Fleet Street's most infamous journalists of the past half century.

The first modern, secular biography of St. Catherine of Siena, Italy's answer to Joan of Arc, which casts a 21st-century eye over her Short, dramatic life. In Setting the World on Fire, Shelley Emling gives an intimate portrayal of this fascinating and revolutionary woman.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605 1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams ...

Originally written up in 1930 as a series of thrilling articles in the Daily Telegraph, Hector Bywater experiences were soon turned into a book, with the help of Daily Express journalist H. C. Ferraby.

The story of a remarkable Irishman who served the British Empire for almost fifty years. His extraordinary military career took in countless conflicts, two World Wars, acts of heroism and encounters with royalty. Containing Kelly's personal photographs this is a fascinating look at individual bravery and the closing years of the British Empire.

Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces not once but twice, and completing the Command and General Staff College without a security clearance, while meantime being wounded in Nam, finally found his true calling as a publisher.

The captivating memoirs of a Political heavyweight, detailing more than 40 years in government.