Biography

Caroline Cass. An intimate portrait that reveals the truth behind the myth of one of Kenya's great conservationists, revealing a passionate, temperamental & controversial woman. 23... more information

A memoir. Story of a woman who left the religious life at the end of the 1960's & how she coped with life in the secular world. P/B "..deeply moving.." more information

This is the author's own modest but passionate account of the extraordinary day he crossed the mile finish line in under 4 minutes, the preparation he went through & the races that... more information

Phil Taylor & Paul Nicholas. Laying the funnyman bare, from his troubled childhood through his successful career, to the controversies surrounding his marriage & personal life. 335... more information

Collection of John Bayley's memoirs of his wife, the celebrated author Iris Murdoch, compiled into one volume. 659pp P/B more information

The intimate adventures of a London call girl. From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day to day adventures on & off the field in a frank, funny & award-wi... more information

Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995 & the journal he kept during the production of Forty Years On, the book also includes accounts of his many television plays &, at its he... more information

Henry Probert. Outstanding insight into a man who combined leadership, professionalism, decisiveness & kindness, & remains one of the most controversial figures of WWII. 432pp b/w ... more information

Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game's one true living legend & his story both on and off the pitch reads like a... more information

Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime: the Flixborough chemical plant fire, Ethiopian famine, the Birmingham pub bombing, Lockerbie. He was ther... more information

Ian Gilmour. Fascinating account of the political, social & economic background to the writings of Byron & Shelley, how they became close friends & kindred spirits. 402pp P/B (rrp ... more information

James Knox. One of the most dazzling figures of the twenties & thirties - travel writer, prophet & wit - brought vividly to life for the first time in a brilliant biography. 493pp ... more information

Lydia Flem. Portrait of the poet, priest, scholar, philosopher, musician, moralist & magician that began life as a sickly baby & went on to become the audacious, gallant man behind... more information

David Bret. Authorised edition, telling the full, colourful story of Chevalier's extraordinary life & career. 245pp b/w photos P/B more information

Winston S Churchill. While the definitive collection of Churchill's speeches fills eight volumes, here, his grandson, Winston S. Churchill, has put together a personal selection of... more information

One summer's day in the late 60s two young Londoners fell in love with a hill farm in South Wales. But they had almost no money, no idea about sheep, & their marriage was uncertain... more information

For over half a century Alistair Cooke entertained millions of listeners across the globe with his weekly BBC radio programme 'Letter From America'. Here, published for the first t... more information

The life & books of Barbara Taylor Bradford, charting her difficult rise to fame & fortune. Her life story, from humble beginnings to success & riches mirrors that of perhaps her m... more information

Geoffrey Wall. Brilliantly recreating the life & times of the writer, who famously worte to within an inch of his life & in the process left behind a body of work that stands compa... more information

The surprising life story of TV's favourite chef, from a childhood in Somerset to TV stardom, told in his own inimitable style. 278pp H/B more information