Louis Allen & Jean Wilson 
Lafcadio Hearn: Japan’s Great Interpreter [EPUB ebook] 
A New Anthology of His Writings 1894-1904

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page Mc Bee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while strugglin …

Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later confessed to by someone else – and held as a Welsh Martyr. The book examines his lif …

"Gibbon" written by means of James Cotter Morison is an in-depth biography of the eminent historian Edward Gibbon, first-class recognized for his epic work "The History of the Decline …

Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Had it not been for Morello, the world may never have heard of ”men of …

Julian Vosper-Smith is a cad and a seducer, a wit and a raconteur. Every man wants to be him and every girl wants to shag him, and now you too can share in his success. Follow his amusing stories and …

A true story of how living in poverty, having a dysfunctional family, and living in Syria with domestic abuse should have destroyed me, but God pulled me out of it all by giving me a will to never gi …

Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century. …

Winner of the 2003 Shingo Prize! Henry Ford is the man who doubled wages, cut the price of a car in half, and produced over 2 million units a year. Time has not diminished the progressiveness of his …

An honest, radical and moving account of life off the grid. It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. No running water, no car, …

Published in 1994: This book is to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertz’s death at the terribly young age of thirty-six. The introductory biography together with eleven papers …