David Macpherson 
Biography of the Bookcase on my Side of the Bed [EPUB ebook] 

Although the author has contributed letters to a number of newspapers, these letters provide a flow of thoughts sent to one newspaper over a little more than a decade. A variety of viewpoints are pre …

This edition presents the extant journals of Pauline Clairmont (1825–1891) and Wilhelm Clairmont (1831–1895), the niece and nephew of Claire Clairmont (1798–1879) who was Mary Shelley’s (1797–1851) s …

This book examines the life and political career of Albertino Mussato (1261–1329), a Paduan poet, historian and politician. Mussato was one of the first writers of the late medieval period to begin r …

Sir Oliver Popplewell became, in his own words, officially ”judicially senile” after a distinguished career at the Bar, as a High court judge specialising in defamation, arbitration and sports law …

While wetting the bed was normal for the other five-years-olds, my experience almost cost me my life. I was sleeping soundly at about 2:00 am when my foster sister began shouting, "Momma, she we …

This is Don’s third book of adventure tales. But unlike his first two books, The Idling Bulldozer and The Seventy-Thousand Dollar Outhouse, which focused exclusively on kayaking, the tales in this vo …

At its heart, this is a tender story of mother-daughter love and gentle compassion; reaching out to all who have been touched by grief and loss. The Brontes, My Mother and Me offers a unique lens to …

Aim High is an inspirational book written by the UK’s leading wheelchair athlete, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson. She has won 16 medals, eleven of which are gold, countless European titles, six London Mara …

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 …

This is the first full-length biography of Sylvia Plath, whose suicide made her a misinterpreted cause celebre and catapulted her into the ranks of the major confessional voices of her generation. …