01 Frank Chalk is a teacher in a fairly poor inner city school - a school where the kids get drunk, take drugs and beat up the teachers... when they can be bothered to turn up. He confiscates their porn, booze and trainers, fends off

Rudolf Steiner - educator, architect, artist, philosopher and agriculturalist - ranks amongst the most creative and prolific figures of the early twentieth century. Yet he remains a mystery to most people. This is the biogra

Presents the history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of literature. In this one year, we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw, and who he worked

01 Jan Ruff O'Herne was born in Indonesia in 1923, the fourth generation of a Dutch colonial family. She enjoyed a carefree childhood with a loving family, growing up on a sugar plantation near Semarang in Central Java. Jan's childh

During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. During his escape, Christopher m

For over twenty years Sir Stephen Wall was at the heart of Whitehall, working for a succession of British leaders as they shaped Britain's policy towards the European Union. He was there behind the scenes when

Describing the Edwardian world in which Agatha Christie grew up, this book explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates mysteries surrrounding her life incl

In 1919, newspaper said that a British expedition had confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity. Two years later, Chaim Weizmann led a fund-raising mission to the United States and invited Einstein to join it. This wo

Alistair Cooke, for 52 years the unmistakable voice of BBC's "Letter from America", was 90 in 1998. Drawing upon correspondence, private papers and the reminiscences of family and friends, this is the biography of one the mo

An entertaining story of one woman's adventures in vintage clothing.

Follows the twists and turns of Shauna Reid's adventure as she curbs the calories and learns to love the gym. This title includes travel tales from Red Square to Reykjavik, as well as romance and intrigue as she meets the ma

Two of the most successful British novelists of the last fifty years, Kingsley and Martin Amis are both known for their savage wit and their indifference to causing controversy. In his critical biography, Neil Powell

01 Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of inc

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in India in 1869. He was educated in London. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to non-violent change. Writ

Paul Rusesabagina was a manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda. But on 6 April 1994 mobs with machetes turned into cold-blooded murderers, and commenced a slaughter of 800,000 civilians in just 100 days. In this autobiography,

A memoir of Frank McCourt's growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little mon

Reissue of Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s.

In "Angry White Pyjamas", Robert Twigger blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life

This volume provides the memoirs of the woman who gave her name to London's hippest nightclub, 'Annabel's' and was married to the entrepreneur Sir James Goldsmith.

Praised as 'remarkable,' 'meticulous,' and 'long overdue,' "Anne Frank: The Biography", originally published in 1998, still stands as the definitive account of the girl who has become 'the human face of the Holocaust

Uri Dan was a trusted advisor to Ariel Sharon. This work combines political history, narrative biography, interviews, and correspondence that gives a fresh perspective on the conflict in the Middle East and provides

A remarkably wide-ranging anthology - laid out, day by day, like a diary - The Assassin's Cloak has been universally praised.

This is the story of Kemal Ataturk, the man who was influential in shaping the modern state of Turkey. It describes intrigues, the brutalities of civil war, personal courage and shows us Ataturk, the incarnation of glory, as

"Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package." " And now, at last, the most important

The most beautiful film and fashion statement of her era, and the highest-paid film actress of the time, despite never having taken an acting lesson, Audrey Hepburn was for decades a source of delight and genuine admiration.

They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This autobiography, tells of a young, disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addition, robbery and prison was o

Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. Providing insights gleaned from interviews with Ava's colleagues, fr

A moving memoir by one of America's most important young writers. After a lifetime of ambivalence, Rebecca Walker decided to have a baby. Raised by her mother, the acclaimed writer Alice Walker, Rebecca had consigned motherh

This is the shocking story of Georgia Tann, a notorious dealer in black-market babies, whose actions shaped adoption as we know it today. THE BABY THIEF tells the story of infamous baby seller Georgia Tann, who, between 1924 and 1950,

A literary memoir, which illuminates the lives of three generations of women. It talks about the author's eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales an

A historic survey of 22 of ruthless, ambitious women. Each story speaks for itself: from Queen Mary I who did 'what it took' to protect Catholicism in England, to Madame Mao who became one of communist China's powerful and feared lead

Founder of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet, Balanchine's forays into films and musicals, as well as his reinterpretations of ballet classics, revolutionised the look of modern dance. Part of

A political tour of Obamas legislative experience as well as his ideas about race, religion, and politics, this book provides an in-depth look at what this presidential candidate believes, what he represents, and how he might transf

Colm Toibin has called Thomas Moore 'the most influential figure in shaping the Irish psyche'. Through his Irish Melodies, Moore created an iconography of silenced harps, misty landscapes and round towers that lives on today, more t

A collection of biographies: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically s

From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the "Very Interesting People" series provides bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures. Each book in the series is based upon the

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

The bestselling author of "Complications" reveals what you need to be a great surgeon - and shows how everyone can improve at what they doThe struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better

The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. This book explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the fac

Explores how and why biographies and autobiographies play such a popular, yet contested, role in contemporary Western culture.

A biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath which presents a different view of her life and death by shifting any blame away from Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, and suggesting the problems lay in her personality di

This title provides a comprehensive and definitive account of New Labour in power.

A stunning conclusion to Anthony Seldon's definitive account of the Blair premiership, covering his tenure from 9/11 to his departure from Number 10.

On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idin

Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist performing researc