A very engaging and enjoyable biography that gets a delicate balance just right.
A very engaging and enjoyable biography that gets a delicate balance just right.
A hugely engaging and enjoyable biography of George Herriman, who created the newspaper comic Krazy Kat and developed it over an extraordinarily sustained period of creativity that lasted for decades.
A very engaging biography of a fascinating man who has the extraordinary ill luck to be vilified by by two great English poets in stunning and memorable ways.
Robert Blincoe was the child of an unmarried mother who was left at the workhouse in the parish of St. Pancras in London at the age of four in 1796.
On Friday April 9th 2004 Thomas Hamill was kidnapped by Iraqi fighters and on Sunday May 2nd 2004, 24 days later he escaped and was rescued by a military patrol. This gripping book is the story of how Thomas Hamill found himself in Iraq, how he survived his captivity, how
This is a shadow biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, tracing his life through the real life crimes that he was interested in or involved in. Part of the argument running through the book is that the rational, deductive methods that Sherlock Holmes used were the natural thinking processes that Conan
Benjamin Disraeli remains the most unlikely person to have become Prime Minister of The United Kingdom, even more unlikely he did so as the leader of the Conservative Party. Disraeli was born a Jew and baptised a Christian at the age of twelve, he was very probably gay, certainly flamboyant,
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