Esther Leslie 
Walter Benjamin [EPUB ebook] 

”I was stunned into stillness” Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist ”I”ve had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies – once by a white undercover cop, once by a young …

”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 t …

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, …

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway”s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson”s cruise to the cannibal-infested …

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne”s memoir, The Devil”s Defender , recounts his tortuous …

A series of thoughts written to provide distraction and comfort during a difficult time in the author”s …

Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to …