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'This was the ultimate way to kill a man'
During the 1970s a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which ...
A moving autobiography from the famous, even infamous Irish playwright and author, Brendan Behan. Continuing the longstanding tradition of political Irish literature, propagated by James ...
One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of ...
If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN
In the summer ...
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding "the life of the infinitely small."
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific ...
Joseph Banks was one of the most influential figures in British maritime history and the development of the natural sciences in the country. Born in ...
For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his ...
"Vintage Iacocca . . . He is fast-talking, blunt, boastful, and unabashedly patriotic. Lee Iacocca is also a genuine folk hero. . . . His career is breathtaking."-Business Week
He ...
'Light is in us even if we have no eyes.'
It is a rare man who can maintain a love of life through the infirmity ...
The first volume of Clive James's autobiography.'I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the ...
Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on ...
The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker's own words ...
Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis ...
Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence ...
