The Biography of Tottenham Hotspur - The Incredible Sto...
New edition of this succesful, detailed and colourful histor...
A Scandalous Life - The Biography of Jane Digby
The biography of Jane Digby, an `enthralling tale of a ninet...
The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and N...
The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman...
Journeyings: the Biography of a Middle-class Generation...
Journeyings: the Biography of a Middle-class Generation 1920...
Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-class Generation...
Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-class Generation, 192...
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary F...
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and fr...
Frida - The Biography of Frida Kahlo
This biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a ...
Mr Showbiz - The Biography of Robert Stigwood
Born in Port Pirie, South Australia and moving to the UK in ...
Snowdon - The Biography
MP - The Life Of Michael Peterson
The only authorised biography of MP, a tortured genius and a surfing icon who embodied the zeitgeist of his time. the incredible story of Australian surfings cult hero A sports book that leaves many others in its wash: it actually tells it how it was Herald Sun as heartbreaking as it is entertaining
throws open the panel-van door on one of the most intriguing characters in A...
The Churchill Factor - How One Man Made History
A refreshingly original biography for fans of The Darkest Hour The must-read biography of the year. Evening StandardHe writes with gusto
the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever
this book sizzles. The Times The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchills death, and written ...
George Marshall: A Biography
âElegant and iconoclastic . . . refreshing . . . persuasive.ââNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWHere is the first biography to offer a complete picture of the life of George C. Marshall; chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945 and the military leader who actually ran World War II for America as he oversaw all personnel and logistics.Following Marshall from his childhood in western...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman
[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, ...
Outsiders - Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf and their famous novels.We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. Outsider, outlaw, outcast: a womans reputation was her security a...
Stalin's Englishman - The Lives of Guy Burgess
Winner of the St Ermins Intelligence Book of the Year Award. One of the great biographies of 2015. The Times Fully updated edition including recently released information. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. A remarkable and def...
High Voltage: The Life of Angus Young - ACDC's Last Man Standing
High Voltage is the first biography to focus exclusively on Angus. It tells of his remarkable rise from working-class Glasgow and Sydney to the biggest stages in the world.Angus Young; the co-founder and the last remaining original member of AC/DC; has for more than 40 years been the face; sound and sometimes the exposed backside of the trailblazing rock band. In his trademark schoolboy outfit; gu...
Anthony Powell - Dancing to the Music of Time
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer andFinancial Times A landmark biography The Times, Books of the Year One of our generations greatest biographers London Review of Books Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character a joy to read Prospect The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generations gre...
Prairie Fires - The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Just as gripping as the original novels . . . As pacy and vivid as one of Wilders own narratives, this surprising biography is immensely revealing both about Wilder and about Americas founding myths Sunday Times Little House devotees will appreciate the extraordinary care and energy Fraser devotes to unc...
Dancing to the Precipice - The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
[A] remarkable biography
.Moorehead deftly wields periods detail
to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics. Vogue From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pinan astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman (Bo...
Gold Dust Woman - The Biography of Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock, but her energy and magnetism sparked new interest in this icon. At 68, shes one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known, and the rare woman whos a real rock n roller.Gold Dust Woman gives the gold standard of rock biographers (The Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into ...
Game Changer - How John Borghetti changed the face of aviation in Australia
The biography of one of Australias most fascinating and enigmatic business leaders, John Borghetti From mail boy to CEO the trajectory of John Borghettis career seemed set for a corporate fairy-tale ending
until it nearly wasnt. After 36 years at Qantas, Borghetti was passed over for the top job and found himself having to start again. He hesitated before signing on with Virgin, the l...
Harry Kane - The Biography
Harry Kane is a Spurs boy through and through one of our own, as the fans ditty goes and a legend in the making. He proved to be one of the Lanes most promising players. After graduating through the youth ranks, Kane had his first Premier League start in 2014, leading to his winning the Golden Boot after scoring twenty-five goals in the 2015/16 season. The boy who started out in the ...
Jesus - An Illustrated Biography
Jesus emerged from nowhere to become, in his short life perhaps as few as 32 years a thinker, teacher and preacher whose words and deeds would change the world and become the foundation for the worlds largest religion. But the biography as outlined in the New Testament and apocryphal writings only tells us so much. LIFEs editors go, in words and pictures, in search of Jesus of Nazare...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Gaskells biography of her close friend Charlotte BrontA was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Charlotte BrontAs life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer who had foreseen the single life for herself, to her marriage a...
Thommo Speaks Out - The authorised biography of Jeff Thomson
I just run in and go whang. This is how Jeff Thomson, the fastest bowler of all times, explains his technique. Thommo was feared by batsmen all around the world. Sri Lankan Sunil Wettimuny recalls facing one of Thommos balls: Never before or since that day did I know fear on the cricket field. Mike Brearley, the Middlesex captain who led England during the World Series Cricket incursio...
Becoming Steve Jobs - The evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER with a new foreword by Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen. For my money, a better book about Jobs than Walter Isaacsons biography New Yorker A fascinating reinterpretation of the Steve Jobs story Sunday Times We all think we know who Steve Jobs was, what made him tick, and what made him succeed. Yet the single most important que...
Citizen Clem - A Biography of Attlee: Winner of the Orwell Prize
**WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING****WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY***Book of the year: The Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Evening Standard*Outstanding . . . We still live in the society that was shaped by Clement Attlee Robert Harris, Sunday TimesThe best book in the field of British politics Philip Collins, The TimesEasi...
A Life in the Wild - George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts
For more than fifty years, explorer-naturalist George Schaller has been on a mission: to save the worlds great wild beasts and their environments. In this compelling biography, illustrated with Schallers own striking photographs, Pamela S. Turner examines the amazing life and groundbreaking work of the man International Wildlife calls the worlds foremost field biologist. Schallers land...
Pretty Gentlemen - Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World
The term macaroni was once as familiar a label as punk or hipster is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly...