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Author: Josephine Ross

From her childhood, shadowed by the marital upheavals of her father Henry VIII, and the tragic first encounter with courtship to the fantastical flirtations of her old age, Elizabeth refused to commit herself to any man. ...

Author: Michael Walsh

Presents a tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. This book shows how all eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, ...

Author: Nigel Hamilton

Nigel Hamilton's account of Bill Clinton's early life and career - Bill Clinton: An American Journey - drew widespread praise. Now, in Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency, Nigel Hamilton charts the experience of the 4 ...

Author: John Campbell

Covers the eleven and a half years of Margaret Thatcher's momentous premiership. This is the study of the Thatcher Government from its hesitant beginning to its dramatic end. Drawing on the memoirs and diaries of Mrs Tha ...

Author: Alison Weir

On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, t ...

Author: Thomas Schipperges

This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies. They tell the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past, from Beethoven to Dietrich, from Einstein to Churchill and are suitable for studen ...

Author: Zelman Cowen

Sir Zelman was Vice-Chancellor of two universities, including the University of Queensland during times of turbulent student protest, and was appointed Governor-General of Australia in 1977.An outstanding scholar and con ...

Author: Kerry Redmann

The story of Unfinished Journey centres around the letters of Morris B Redmann Jr, written home to his parents and family from October 20, 1943, through January 11, 1945. He was killed in action on January 14, 1945, duri ...

Author: Annping Chin

For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame, Confucius the man has been elusive. Now, in The Authentic Confucius, Annping Chin has worked through the ...

Author: Sir Edmund Hillary

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF

AN ORDINARY MAN WHO BECAME THE

CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORER

Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set fo ...

Author: Ben Macintyre

Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. H ...

Author: Coryne Hall

The vivacious Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. As a young girl, she had enjoyed romantic troika rides, and passionate nights, w ...

Author: Frank Gardner

Powerful personal story by the BBC's security correspondent about the attempt on his life, his remarkable recovery and the journeys that have taken him there... On 6 June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers ...

Author: Mary S. Lovell

Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15 and when she was widowed at 16, she was still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more tha ...

Author: Julia Keay

The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, who single-handedly compiled the monumental dictionary/index/gazetteer to the Bible, Cruden's Concordance -- still going strong 260 years later.Cruden's Concordance ...

Author: Ronald Reagan & Douglas Brinkley

During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the ...

Author: Alexander Waugh

From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most ecce ...

Author: Bettany Hughes

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield ...

Author: Timothy Mowl

William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by Lord Burlington from an artistic apprent ...

Author: Tracy Borman

Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. Described by Swift as a consummate courtier who packed away her 'private virtues...like cloaths in a chest', by Po ...