Biography: historical, political & military

A biography of Pliny the Younger, whose uncle Pliny the Elder died at Vesuvius's eruption. The Younger became a Roman lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, curator of drains and representative of the Empire. Now in paperback. `Never less than compelling . She consistently succeeds in bringi...

A charming memoir of from a vicar's daughter, which describes growing up in the north eastern mining town of Ashlington. The follow-up to }Bedpans & Bobby Socks{, it will appeal to all nostalgia fans. In the heart of Ashington - a bustling Geordie mining town - a handsome red-brick vicarage, surr...

Hardback edition (9781847740038) has sold-out. First full biography of a renowned British Muslim of the nineteenth century.Essential work for students of Islam in the West.Referenced in numerous academic works.This research inspired documentaries and features that appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC 4, ...

The life of Jane Austen remains fairly opaque. However, in spite of this the author has written a very observant and revealing biography of this remarkable writer whose characters are as alive today in their longings as they were 200 years ago. Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about on...

The remarkable story of the farmer's daughter from Galloway who protected the girls in her care at the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest from the Nazis, leading to her incarceration in Auschwitz and subsequent death. Based on in-depth research. Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotlan...

A few months ago, few had heard much about mild-mannered backbench MP Jeremy Corbyn. Now he is the surprise leader of the Labour Party, after winning a grassroots campaign of startling relevance and dignity. Yet who is this man of apparent integrity and left-leaning views, who divides his own par...

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as "X," offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories were the basis for Oliver Stone's controversial movie JFK. Prouty believed that Kennedy's death was a coup d'tat, and he backs th...

In the aftermath of Jo Cox's tragic death in 2016, her husband Brendan Cox urged us to remember Jo's life and what she stood for and not the manner of her death. In this moving and impassioned portrait of Jo - as daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and activist - we see how much she gave and how m...

John Hume is regarded as the key architect of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This book collects extracts from Hume's key speeches, articles and interviews, and adds a contextual narrative. The selected texts chronicle his entire career, covering his entry into public life in the early 1960s t...

On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity, entered Australia hoping to escape his old life and start anew. One month later his identity was uncovered and he was cautioned; the start of years of legal proceedin...