Novelistic Biographies

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING – HIGHLY COMMENDED‘Remarkable’ Robert Macfarlane‘Beautiful’ Amy Liptrot‘Powerful, unflinching . . . Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir’ …

Shows Nasafi and his legacy in a new light. Nasafi”s works are of particular interest because they contain valuable descriptions of the different Islamic world views of the age. Includes substantial …

Eliza Lowe, with two of her sisters, ran a school for girls, aged between 13 and 18, first in Liverpool, then in Southgate Middlesex. The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, …

In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon”s Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the …

This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2–1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practi …

This book traces the life”s work of a man now widely regarded as one of the greatest economists, political philosophers and social theorists of the century. The result is the most alive and …

How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history’s greatest ‘what ifs’… A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astoun …

The title of this intriguing book derives from Edward Gibbon”s description of the second century AD as the time of the greatest happiness and prosperity in the history of the world. Jock Macdonald p …

Flow through this book on an amazing journey from the beginnings of a small boy using his imagination to awaken the energy of magical awareness, as he experiences night-time encounters with beings …

"The Grimke Sisters: Sarah and Angelina Grimke, The First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Women’s Rights" by Catherine H. Birney is a compelling historical biography that …