Biographien, Tagebücher, Briefe

Mr Brown's War

Helen D Millgate

Richard Brown kept a personal diary throughout the whole of the Second World War. He used it to record the course of the conflict as he perceived it, gleaned from the newspapers, the wireless and ...

Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History

Timothy Wilson-Smith

Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest Fra...

Shakespeare the Player

John Southworth

Shakespeare the Player overturns traditional images of the Bard, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as actor any more than he can be separated from his works.

800 Years of Women's Letters

Olga Kenyon

This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organised by subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politic...

Archibald Sturrock

Tony Vernon

Born in 1816, by 1840 Sturrock was involved with Brunel and Gooch in establishing the Great Western Railway's works at Paddington and new town at Swindon. He designed locomotives and carr...

The First Four Minutes

Sir Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister's own account of becoming the became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes - a feat which established him as one of the most famous sportsmen in history.

To Kill Rasputin

Andrew Cook

The murder of Rasputin on the night of 17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary: first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of hi...

William John Wills

John Van der Kiste

In 1860 the Australian interior was unmapped and unknown to European settlers. When the Victorian Exploring Expedition tasked Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills and a party of nineteen me...

The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

John Schofield

Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister and right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous p...

John Knox

'This short biography is the "essential" John Knox with all his passion, power and devotion to Christ. It is Knox at his pithy best without the frills and distractions. We are all inde...

Tilted

Steven Skurka

<p>With the advent of Conrad Black’s new appeal, Steven Skurka is back to deliver a thorough, in-depth account of the controversial businessman’s legal difficulties. <br><br>...

Untold Stories

Timmy Fielding

By the time Timmy Fielding is ten years old, he has already experienced situations that no child should be exposed to. At home, he has a physically and mentally abusive mother and an absentee fath...

Two Chai Day

Irene McGoldrick MSW

Told in a raw, non-sentimental voice that is both believable and authentic. This book o?ers a ray of hope that although grief has many faces and moods, a journey through it does not necessarily me...

Can't Ruffle This Feather

Angela M. Bushi

Sometimes God has to ruffle your feathers so you can spread your wings and fly. In 1994, fresh out of college, Angie Feather embarked on a journey around the world as a teacher and missionary in o...

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Stuart Maloney

Stuart Maloney was dead for twenty-six minutes when he was born, which led to brain damage and cerebral palsy. Stuart pulls back the curtains on disability and describes his triumphs and tribulati...

Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds

Teenager by Oluwaseun

Bamgbopa Oluwaseun Sunday

Teenager by Oluwaseun is book that contains the authors experience and perspective about life especially as a teen. Teenagers are in a very delicate and fragile age of their life and they all are ...

My Autobiography

A.P. McCoy

Running Out of Tears

Esther Rantzen

In October 1986 ChildLine - the first national helpline for children in the world - was launched. With it came a revolution in child protection. For the first time abused children had someone they...

Out of the Ashes

Jan Greenough