Biography: general

In late October 2006, one of the most spectacular kidnapping cases of the younger past had come to end, when Natascha Kampusch freed herself after being held captive in a hidden cellar (near Vienna, Austria) for more than eight years. Media companies from all over the world came to cover her life...

Patrick Vernon's landmark '100 Great Black Britons' campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the black British community from the mainstrea...

At 18, your life is full of possibility. You have everything to look forward to - unless you've got the plague. In this unconventional and witty history, award-winning writer and broadcaster Alice Loxton delves into Britain's past, exploring the country though 18 notable figures at that most form...

Biography - Introducing Abbas Kiarostami, a prominent cinematographer, for the young audience.

When W.G. Sebald died in 2001, he was internationally acknowledged as one of the most important German writers of our era. Now, thanks to Iain Galbraith's vibrant translations, the full breadth of his poetry is available in English. This volume brings together poems published during Sebald's life...

The further adventures of the shepherdess and bestselling author and family in a Dales setting. In this book, Amanda renovates an old farmhouse. The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller. As seen on Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm. Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nin...

In this title, a legend in the civil rights and hip-hop movements speaks out for the first time in this memoir that takes readers from Afeni Shakur's Black Panther days through the life and death of her son, rap megastar Tupac Shakur. Four decades in the making, AFENI SHAKUR tells the extraordina...

For ten years Tete-Michel Kpomassie, originally from Togo, worked his way north to Greenland, hoping to live among the Inuit. His eventual success & what he found when he got there form the basis of this account.

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, 'like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces'. 'Aftermath' chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman.

The lives of the Romanovs were full of colour and drama, but the woman at the heart of the family, the beautiful Tsarina Alexandra, has remained an enigma. Here, the author creates a detailed psychological profile of Alexandra and her family. The lives and deaths of the Romanov family are redolen...