Biography & autobiography

Norman Rockwell

by Laura Claridge

Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized,...

Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

by Emily Prager

In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first...

It's a TOGS Life: With Sir Terry Wogan and the TOGS

by Norman Macintosh

It's a TOGs Life, written by Norman Macintosh, with Sir Terry Wogan and the TOGs. 13 years of TOG activities, from Conventions to Voyages, Children in Need to Barnardo's, Deadly's Quizzes, Fire Engines, Buses,...

Albert Kesselring

by Pier Battistelli & Adam Hook

Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936-37, playing a crucial role in...

The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

by Les Standiford

As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.

Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles...

A Chronology Of The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Detailed Account Of The Life And Times Of The Creator Of Sherlock Holmes

by Brian W Pugh

A comprehensive chronology of the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first section contains a detailed chronology of the major and minor events in the life of Sir Arthur and his family from 1794 to 1930. This...

Britain's Television Queen

by Bob Crew

Focusing purely on Queen Elizabeth II's relationship with television, this book shows how she was ahead of the game in helping to change the face of British television from the outset of her reign in 1953 when...

Under the Red Blanket

by Bea Andersen Swedien

Under The Red Blanket is a memoir of a Swedish-American family living in a remote area of North East India among the Naga headhunting tribes. The book opens with the father of Bea, Bengt Anderson, immigrating...

The First Tycoon

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2010, National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2009

by T.J. Stiles

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through...

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

by Saira Shah

Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born...

A Mind That Found Itself

by Clifford Whittingham Beers

An autobiographical account of his confinement in a mental institution of the time, by Clifford Whittingham Beers.

Confessions of a High-Priced Call Girl: Second Edition

by Dimitra Ekmektsis

Praise for Confessions Of A High-Priced Call Girl "With clients that included Oscar winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, Dimitra became the Happy Hooker of the 1990s. Now she shares some of her juiciest anecdotes...

Question

by Lee Hoyle

Lee Hoyle - philosopher, man on the street or genius? Perhaps after reading this book you will make your own mind up. Unedited from his original manuscripts, this eBook contains a large number of 'mini articles'...

Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be

by Rebecca Eckler

Rebecca Eckler is a popular newspaper columnist who lives the fabulous life and gets paid to write about it. So when a tipsy romp with her fiancé on the night of their lavish engagement party leaves her unexpectedly...

Rudy: My Story

by Rudy Ruettiger

The inspirational real-life story of the man behind the beloved movie Rudy, his continued determination to make his dreams come true, and how you can dream big too.

How does a lower middle class kid, who suffered...

George Wade 1673-1748

by Denise Chantrey

In Westminster Abbey a magnificent marble monument honours the memory of Field Marshal George Wade. He is best remembered for his role in disarming and pacifying the clans after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715,...

Down's Syndrome - The Biography

by Chris Nancollas

The first ever general trade biography of Down's Syndrome, tracing the history of the condition within the context of human civilization, and societal attitudes towards otherness, learning disability and mental...

Living With Dying

by Grace Sheppard

A profound insight to the greatest test we all face: to be beside someone we love - a parent, a partner, a child - as they slip away from us. Grace Sheppard draws on the experience of caring for her dying husband,...

Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir

by Mark Salter & John McCain

In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of My Fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain’s release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is the rest...

Dear Miss Landau

by James Christie

Every morning James Christie puts on a blue rugby shirt and jeans. His wardrobe is full of identical outfits. Every day he eats the same meal and drinks from the same mug. These are not ingrained habits, but...