Novelistic Biographies

This is a girl”s guide to emotional baking.We”ve all been there.The blind date from hell.The Big Hurt.The guy who details his various surgeries over Caesar salad on the first date.Who needs a pint …

Based on an intimate knowledge of the subject and his environment, this biography of the most influential economist of the twentieth century traces Keynes” career on all its many levels. From academ …

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis’s own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the …

Examining two centuries of Balkan politics, from the emergence of nationalism to the retreat of Communist power in 1989, this is the first book to systematically argue that many of the region”s prob …

Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in p …

A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zippers and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. A recent graduate, dres …

”Constantly entertaining … So much here to amuse and inform” Observer ”These friendly, knockabout letters are a treat” Sunday Telegraph ”Irresistible” New York Times _______________________ …