Alice Moore-Harell 
Gordon and the Sudan [EPUB ebook] 
Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877-1880

Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were remarka …

Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemis …

The acclaimed author of The Magnetic Girl delivers “an elegy for her dead sisters . . . a heartfelt, painful family saga, skillfully told by a survivor” (Kirkus Reviews).   When J …

A true story about a troubled boy growing up with an extremely distressed family and an untamed mother who suppressed and self medicated her mental illness by inflicting pain on her children! …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 ”A manifesto for recalibrating” DAILY MAIL ”I can”t think of many books where the reader feels so passionately on the side of the narrator” GUARDIAN ”A …

The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and in …

"The Northern Whale-Fishery" by William Scoresby is a comprehensive exploration of the 19th-century whaling industry in the Arctic regions, blending maritime adventure with economic, enviro …

Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with ”Arthur Miller Remembers”, an interview with the writer from 1995. Following his death in Februa …

Chris Corcoran opens his mind to share every thought he”s ever had, in his own random order. There are insights into his life as he takes readers back to his Eighties school disco days to reveal how …

The brilliant and influential statesman, Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan’s modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight …