Biography

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1942, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather ...

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1942, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather ...

This is a collection of photographs, most never published before, from both the public and private life of Al Stewart, Scottish cult folk hero behind chart hit 'Year of the Cat' who enjoyed top ten success in the US.

It's just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting. The bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155 grams of cork, string and leather - is hurled at you. At 90 mph it travels 22 yards in under half a second. You can barely see it and you've got to be swinging your bat before its halfway towar...

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...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017, this is the most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali, based on over 500 interviews with those who knew him best. The book features many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina' and the 'Balkan Napoleon', into the consciousness o...

Details the life of Great Britain's Princess Alice, who married Prince Andrew of Greece in 1903, a union that plunged her into a life of turmoil, fraught with war, exile, and execution.

Whether serving in the US Army in World War II, or during his burgeoning career as a teenage comedian in the Catskills, Mel Brooks was always mining his experiences for material. His iconic career began with Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, where he was part of the greatest writers' room in histo...

Whether serving in the US Army in World War II, or during his burgeoning career as a teenage comedian in the Catskills, Mel Brooks was always mining his experiences for material. His iconic career began with Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, where he was part of the greatest writers' room in histo...