Catherine N. Parke 
Biography [PDF ebook] 
Writing Lives

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page Mc Bee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while strugglin …

Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Had it not been for Morello, the world may never have heard of »men of …

Julian Vosper-Smith is a cad and a seducer, a wit and a raconteur. Every man wants to be him and every girl wants to shag him, and now you too can share in his success. Follow his amusing stories and …

Breathing Books is a final year University of Cumbria project, that consists of a compilation of short, autobiographical stories, produced by real people, about their personal experiences.Every so of …

We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it»s their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law»s sudde …

______________________ »A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family» — NIGELLA LAWSON SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE Y …

Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of …

This biographical narrative is a detailed portrayal of the life and career of the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (273 – 337). Combining vivid narrative and historical analysis, Charles …

Francis (FA) Mann was among the most brilliant of an exceptional group of German-Jewish émigrés who came to Britain in the 1930s to escape persecution in Hitler»s Germany. Born and educated in Germa …