Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto 
Daughter of the Samurai [EPUB ebook] 

A shocking and compelling memoir of a young girl’s childhood spent suffering abuse at the hands of her father and his friends. Tracy Black was only five years old when her mother was hospitalised for …

This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individual …

This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view— and Jewish too perhaps—- of a man and times so familiar to us and yet which acquires another …

Johann von Staupitz is generally acknowledged as one of the most important influences on Martin Luther, convincing him of the sin-remitting grace of God. It was this revelation that was to spur Luthe …

The Dream of Bernat Metge is the first English translation of Lo Somni, a prose dialogue written around 1397 by the Catalan humanist Bernat Metge (?1340-1413). It stands as a noteworthy example of na …

Robert Stephenson, the leading engineer of the mid-nineteenth century whose substantial public works brought about considerable social change is now the subject of this excellent new biography: Rober …

Cape Horn”s fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on th …

Heels of Steel tracks the trials and tribulations of “the most networked woman in the City” (Evening Standard); a woman who started in the City at just 15 and worked her way up to C-suite. Having ach …

The dramatic and colorful autobiography of a Black woman born in 1909 in rural Alabama. A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South,  He Included Me weaves together t …

During her 70 years on the throne, few got to know the Queen well, but there is one body of work that sheds new light on her thoughts, personality and the issues that really concerned her: …