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Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses...
The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film,...
Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...
The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady
In June 1983 Margaret...
Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime...
A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A Year In Provence.
Skulking...
Discover the heartfelt, laugh-out-loud account of one of Hollywood's greatest actors and, above all, greatest men
Debonair...
The Empress Helena made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built churches at...
Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...
An intelligent, yet emotionally honest portrait of one of the 20th century's influential, engimatic thinkers.
'Monk's...
In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy
While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her...
Five women. One house. One extraordinary history.
Even today, Cliveden retains its royal mystique - it is where Meghan Markle...
English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never...
The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British...
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction....
'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...
Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an early age he entertained his...
During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...
Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging...
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic...
Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...
Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number...
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1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on...
Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms...
Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed...
Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in...
The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.
The genius behind such...
How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our...
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