John Quincy Adams 
John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294) [EPUB ebook] 

Since 1994, the UK”s National Lottery has created 2, 300 millionaires. Expensive cars, big houses and dream holidays are all top of the wish list for those ordinary people whose lives are changed wi …

The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses T …

In summer 2006 Helmand Province erupted into violence as NATO forces struggled to crush Taliban strongholds. For six weeks the Royal Irish Regiment and the Paras defended Sangin in the face of …

Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By …

A happily ever after story as Margaret finds her true love from coming to terms with her traumatic …

Governor General’s Award Finalist: A “wry, moving” memoir of a woman retracing her grandfather’s escape from Amsterdam during the Holocaust (Alison Pick, Booker-nominated author of Between Gods). …

Franz Alexander was the first graduate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, the man who turned down Freud”s offer to enter into private practice in Vienna, and the man Freud told to go to America …

Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and digital texts which characterise contemporary life writing. This volum …