Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 2002 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of...

George Melly This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the...

Claire Tomalin Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan played a quite different role off-stage as lover to the future king, William IV, third son of...

Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin distills the complex and passionate intellectual strivings of the man whom David Hume called the first philosopher and great man of letters of the...

Corneila Meigs Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, the four famous March sisters in Little Women, were more than just storybook characters. The author, Louisa May Alcott, based that book on...

Nick Johnstone This is the story of Johnny Depp's extraordinary life, tracing his 40-year journey from problem child to Oscar-nominated actor. Illustrated throughout with spectacular movie stills, plus amazingly candid...

Mark Logue and Peter Conradi One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of...

Audrey Daley A book that focuses on the life and work of Diana, Princess of Wales, especially in relationship to children. January 1, 1997 by Ladybird Books Ltd.

Barbara Sofer A biography of Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, who died when the space shuttle Columbia exploded during re-entry in 2003. January 1, 2004 by Kar-Ben Pub

Annette Kobak An illustrated biography of Isabelle Eberhardt who, although she died young, became a legend in her own lifetime. Using her diaries and many previously unpublished letters, the author...

David Cordingly Patrick O' Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of...

Corrie Ten Boom At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of...