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Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of...

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely...

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped...

Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan,...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Leading transplant...

‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game doesn’t always work like the...

Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as...

Whilst serving in the Soviet army in 1973, Sergei Ovsiannikov was arrested and imprisoned for acts of disobedience under military...

The writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney set sail from the east coast of England bound for Iceland, propelled by a desire to...

A gloriously irreverent memoir from the frontline of old age - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author and legendary...

'My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we'd saved. And now here I am, training to be a...

Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal take on...

Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she...

There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then...

The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. In Moondust, Andrew Smith set out to...

Doran... , Бизони...

The definitive biography of Yuri Gagarin, re-published with new material to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of his...

W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The...

One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is as relevant today...

How do we ensure that the guilty are convicted and the innocent walk free?

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Award Gold Dagger...

A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of Village School....

Football, and art. Eric Cantona - legend, maverick, troubled artist or just plain trouble - never saw a need to make a...

From a Hackney council estate to the House of Lords, this is the extraordinary story of one of our greatest...

Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales and Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm, living a life that has almost gone...

Told with Clive James's unassailable sense of humour and self-effacing charm, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching...

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before...

There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic,...

From bestselling author Amanda Owen come more stories of life at Ravenseat, the remote Yorkshire hill farm she shares with...

When law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted murderer and child molester...

Kray... , Kray...

London's most notorious gangsters, in their own words . . .

The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling...