Francoise Gilot Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two.  For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the...

David Herbert Donald   The year's most important biography -- of a leader who still speaks to our timesIn the bestselling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert...

C David Heymann A long-awaited, unauthorized biography by the author of A Woman Named Jackie draws on more than a thousand interviews to provide a candid, provocative study of Taylor's...

John Grigg Lloyd George: The People's Champion, sequel to John Grigg's enthusiastically praised The Young Lloyd George, describes the career of David Lloyd George from 1902 to 1911, its most exciting...

Lydia and Maynard: The Letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard KeynesEdited by Polly Hill and Richard Keynes Hardcover, 360 pages Published September 1st 1989 by Andre Deutsch

J Randy Taraborrelli Newly updated and published to celebrate Madonna's 50th birthday, this paperback edition covers the last six years in the star's life, including her self-imposed exile from America...

Ma Isabel Sanchez VegaraAs a young man, Mohandas Gahdhi dreamt of unity for all peoples and religions. Inspired by this idea, he led peaceful protests to free India from British...

Robert Reid

Author: Maylis de Kerangal Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on...

Yair Lapid Memories After My Death is the story of Tommy Lapid, a well-loved and controversial Israeli figure who saw the development of the country from all angles over its first...

Alison Weir In her remarkable new book, Alison Weir recounts one of the greatest love stories of medieval England. It is the extraordinary tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford,...

Philip Short Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Fran�ois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag...