Antonia Fraser In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from...

Benazir Bhutto Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced...

Roy Hattersley A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of...

WF Deedes Lord Deedes is familiar to many as the "Bill" recipient of fictional letters from Dennis Thatcher in "Private Eye". Here, William Deedes's memoirs provide insight on matters political...

Ingrid SewardRevelatory account of the last four years of Princess Diana's life, by one of her most trusted confidantes.

Author: Alan Clark INTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries Michael Howard and...

Anthony Burgess Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer...

Arthur Mizener Traces the life of Fitzgerald and examines the development of his career as a writer June 1, 1987 by Thames & Hudson

Roy Jenkins A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only...

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre   The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds...

Harvey KaylieHailed as a "living legend" for his prominence in the radio frequency and microwave electronic components field, Harvey Kaylie became a world class industry leaver in their design, manufacture...

Dava Sobel Galileo Galilei (1524-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, the man Albert Einstein was to call "the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether."...