Biografi Novelistik

Scott Quinnell’s book is called The Hardest Test . It is the story of how he became a successful rugby player, in spite of having to fight against learning difficulties at school. When he retired in …

This is the first reset edition of Henderson”s The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1766). Henderson wrote two open letters to Samuel Johnson, criticizing his account of Scotland and th …

Edmund Burke’s iconic stance against the French Revolution and its supposed Enlightenment inspiration, has ensured his central role in debates about the nature of modernity and freedom. It has now be …

”An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history” Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the l …

Strings Attachedis the story of a brilliant, but ferocious music teacher who came to be known as Mr K. A Ukrainian immigrant who survived an abusive childhood to become a noted resident and teacher, …

Originally published as Double Agent Snow, Hitler”s Spyis the paperback edition, which tells of how on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War the double-agent Arthur Owens, codenamed SNOW, …

Des Sleightholme, former Editor of Yachting Monthly’ for many years, is well known for his irreverent outlook on the Establishment and for his unfailing eye for the funny side of things; here he take …

Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile ce …