John Hudson Tiner Learn about his early life as the son of a tanner. Experience his years of struggle as an unknown scientist and enjoy his triumph as one of...

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...

Max Brod Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man...

Howard SounesThe true crime bestseller about Fred and Rose West a couple virtually unique in British criminal history who loved and killed together as husband and wife.During their long relationship...

David W Blight **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**“Extraordinary…a great American biography” ( The New Yorker ) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the...

Ronald Sutherland Ronald Sutherland's Frederick Philip Grove is a comprehensive biography drawing upon numerous archival sources to provide an in-depth look at the life of one of Canada's most influential...

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."...

Brian Jay Jones George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones is the first comprehensive telling of the story of the iconic filmmaker and the building of his film empire, as well as...

Amanda ForemanThe winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate...

Ram OrenTrapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and...