Biographies & Memoirs

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 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.

Serialized in Esquire, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. "Pour Me a Life is an unapologetically honest, raw, and often ...

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 Dark Man is the amazing true story of one of Australia's first serial killers, who kept the colony of New South Wales in the grip of fear as the police ruthlessly hunted their man.

Edwin Llewellyn Charles was a slim, handsome youth, but Terence John, his brother, was beautiful and he knew it. Technically, the boys were twins, but their personalities could not have been more different.

So begins this sweeping true story of a fractured but close-knit Australian family during World ...

One night in 1974, Philippe Petit secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour. This memoir tells the story of how he conspired, connived, improvised, and insisted his way to this coup.

The turbulent story of the radical Left in the eloquent words of one of its foremost leaders

Concise historical introduction to Florence Nightingale and her continuing influence on the world and how we see it.

A unique firsthand account of pre-war life in Hong Kong.The book provides an analysis of the war in Europe, the Chinese and Japanese conflict in the 1930s and the United States position in the Far East and argues that the invasion should never have taken place.

The first book to look in detail at the story of Wellington's 'Georgy'.

A remarkable account of his early life and intellectual formation left unpublished at his death in 2008 by Michael Baxandall, one of the world's greatest cultural historians.

Her curious ways attracted gossip right into her final years when she raised a mysterious dark-skinned child at her home in Berkeley Square.

Anne Barnard's verse was celebrated by Walter Scott but she was also a brilliant and indefatigable diarist.

The story of Robin Darwin A key player in shaping the artistic and design landscape we know today.