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

This updated autobiography features Agnew on the Cronje bribery scandal; the loss of the BBC TV coverage to Channel 4; England's failures at the 1999 World Cup, in South Africa and... 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

The first collection of Bennett's prose since "Writing Home" and takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an accoun... 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

Charles Williams. A masterly portrait of cricket's supreme batsman & Australia's greatest sports hero. 341pp b/w photos P/B (rrp £9.99) 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

CHARLEMAGNE/ The Great Adventure. Derek Wilson. Charles the Great towers over every notion we have of national heroes & semi-mythical champions. His military conquests exceeded th... 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

Roy Jenkins. An exhaustive biographical picture of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th century, from the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle Of Britain to th... more information

Celia Sandys. Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill as a young man, from the years 1899 to 1902, as told by his granddaughter. 234pp b/w photos P/B (rrp £7.99) 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

Daniel Stashower. Fresh & compelling account of the life & strange contrats of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of h... 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