Category Archives: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

One day while marking essay papers, J.R.R. Tolkien found himself writing “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” – and worldwide renown awaited him. Humphrey Carpenter was given access to all Tolkien’s papers, and interviewed his friends … Continue reading →

Born in the 1920s to bohemian parents, Paula Fox was left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother and cared for by a poor minister, her parents began to re-surface, their self-absorbed, toxic “care” a blight on … Continue reading →

Pulitzer prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner”s revealing story of the science that is about to change all life forever. When Stephen Heywood, a carpenter, discovered he had ALS, a gradual, mysterious deterioration of the nervous system, Jamie Heywood gave up his … Continue reading →

Charlotte Mew was a poet with a formidable reputation. Outwardly, she also was a dutiful daughter living at home with an ogre of a mother. However, proprieties had to be observed and no one could know that they had no … Continue reading →

A companion to Tolkien’s life and works, including synopses of his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer, who’s who and chronology. This work includes histories and discussions of his works; analyses of the components of his ‘Silmarillion’ mythology; biographies of persons … Continue reading →

A lyrical, evocative wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child. This book is Xandra Bingley’s account of her childhood on a Cotswold farm, set against the backdrop of the Second … Continue reading →

Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late-18th century England.Author : Perdita by Paula ByrnePublished by : HarperCollins PublishersISBN Number : 7164599Price : £5.35Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies

A look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford, one of the world’s bestselling authors, which is every bit as dramatic as any of her novels.Author : The Woman of Substance by Piers DudgeonPublished by : HarperCollins PublishersISBN Number … Continue reading →

A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the celebrated author of “Rat Pack Confidential”, and “Ready, Steady, Go”.Author : The Last Playboy by Shawn LevyPublished … Continue reading →

Beauty before comfort was Allison Glock’s grandmother’s dictum, a cross she bore “with the subtlety of Liberace.” In this memoir, Glock tells Aneita Jean Blair’s story – of her extraordinary life in Chester, West Virginia, a sooty factory town between … Continue reading →