G.N. Cantor & David Gooding 
Faraday [PDF ebook] 

My British Rail Life focuses on the nationalised rail industry. From leaving school in1975, to the date of privatisation, 1 April 1994, Colin Varney fashions a recollection, which is anhonest and hum …

Walter Fast was born in Vienna not long after the First World War and as a child he lived through the political turmoil of Central Europe, which culminated with Hitler”s annexation of Austria. As wa …

John Snow was a Victorian physician who helped to establish that cholera was spread by contaminated water (not bad air, as theory had it). He traced the source of a deadly cholera outbreak to one pum …

Stage fright is one of the human psyche”s deepest fears. Over half of British adults name public speaking as their greatest fear, even greater than heights and snakes. Laurence Olivier learned to ad …

Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from …

Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked – even by those living within a stone”s throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural cros …

This is a personal story of my life. It portrays the significance of life changing events in my life. These events that shaped and moulded me into who I am today. Although the characters are fictiona …

First Published in 1990. In this extraordinary work of research and informed observation, Jeannie Lo describes her experiences as an OL (”office lady”) and working as a factory woman on a typewrite …

In this, the first biography of Flaubert to be written for many years, Geoffrey Wall brilliantly recreates the life and times of a writer of immeasurable talent and influence – a writer who wrote to …

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 …