A poignant and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and devoted human rights activist. As featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS.
Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered public figures, a man synonymous with the long, bitter struggle to rid South Africa of an apartheid regime and replace it with a multi-racial democracy. Today, he is seen as the face of world freedom, an ambassador for civil rights, a heroic liberator ...
Exploring Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's life and work, this book seeks to reveal the truth behind the man and how he chronicled the 1890s through his art. Lautrec was linked to the social and political movements of his time and his main subjects were the bars and dance-halls of Montmatre.
Michael Coren's biography reveals the complexity and paradox of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Catholic who rejected organised religion, the atheist who later adopted spiritualism, the family man who loved another woman throughout his marriage, the creator of Sherlock Holmes - who wished to destroy his ...
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019'[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times'Extraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness, a fractured ...
An irresistible mixture of memoir, biography, cultural analysis, experiment and hero-worship about one person's enduring obsession. Anniversary Edition with new preface published to coincide with the new film, Judy, starring Rene Zellweger.
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork ...
Hogben escaped from a background of religious bigotry by the academic ladder and gained a major scholarship at Cambridge and graduated in 1916. During a noteworthy academic career, he found time to be active in the Fabian Society and in the London Labour Party. He also founded the Journal of Experimental ...
An intriguing account of a woman at the heart of world politics, half a century before women had the vote The world was at a point of transition between the Victorian age and the modern world of the twentieth century.
In this powerful biography, Aengus Finucane: In the Heart of Concern, the result of over 80 interviews and extensive travel, Deirdre Purcell explores the life and work of Concern founder Father Aengus Finucane.
A devastating memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction and the myth of full recovery - already an online phenomenon in the USA in summer 2018
Elizabeth Paterson worked for International PEN for 29 years and witnessed many strange events, often comic or farcical. The work pays tribute to this international writers' organization and reveals many great writers in unguarded moments.
This is Diana Athill's memoir of her life in publishing. It includes her reflections on editing writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Gitta Sereny and Brian Moore. Athill also offers an account of her own writing career, which includes the works, "Instead of a Letter" and "After a Funeral".
This is the autobiography of a man described as "an institution, one of the great English eccentrics of our time", as well as being immortalized by Private Eye as "Hugh Massivesnob".
An outstanding collection of profiles from The New Yorker Magazine providing a unique investigation into the character, motives and madness of some of the century's most compelling characters.
