Category Archives: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S. Byatt notes, she is “absolutely central to our culture”. This biography reveals the women whose life, as a novelist, as … Continue reading →

A major biography of the most modern and the most underrated of English Literature’s Great Victorians.Author : Browning by Iain FinlaysonPublished by : HarperCollins PublishersISBN Number : 6547729Price : £10.05Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies

A precurser to Picasso, Dali and Bunuel, Antoni Gaudi created dramatically original and daring art that was to surpass and reinvent all that had gone before. In life and in death, Gaudi lived by extravagant gestures and a creativity that … Continue reading →

This is the story of aid worker Emma McCune. Beautiful, compassionate, driven in her work, she was famous throughout eastern Africa and the aid community for going about her work in a mini-skirt. Initially a Princess Diana, she became a … Continue reading →

This biography tells the story of Rosalind Franklin – the single-minded young scientist whose contribution to arguably one of the most significant discoveries of all time went unrecognized, elbowed aside in the rush for glory, and who died too young … Continue reading →

Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper’s importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction … Continue reading →

The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.Author : The World of Gerard Mercator by Andrew TaylorPublished by : HarperCollins PublishersISBN Number : 7100817Price : £6.02Fiction & Poetry … Continue reading →

‘LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD’ a radical new series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. EAuthor : Johnson on Savage by Richard Holmes (Editor), Samuel JohnsonPublished by : HarperCollins PublishersISBN Number … Continue reading →

These conversational-style interviews with Paul Coehlo cover: Paul’s being institutionalized as a young man for his artistic leanings; his kidnapping and torture by paramilitaries; his experiences with Black Magic and drugs; and his views on the nature of writing and … Continue reading →

A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother, and then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette. This biography tells of the life of a mother and daughter. It is … Continue reading →