Historical Biographies

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By Maria A Trapp

A bag of marbles

By Joffo

The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli

By William Kuhn

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Greenblatt, Stephen

Hamish's Mountain Walk

By Hamish M. Brown

The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin

Joe Biden: American Dreamer

By Evan Osnos

Madame Curie: A Biography

By Eve Curie

Don't Pee On My Leg And Tell Me Its Raining

By Judy Sheindlin

Captain James Cook

By Richard Hough

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

By Simon Winchester

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By MacIntyre, Ben, Ben Macintyre

Firebrand: Frank Owen Story

By Gron Williams

Hard Choices: A Memoir

By Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Les Egyptiennes

By Jacq, Christian

Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

By Korda, Michael

Chinese Lives: The People who Made a Civilization

By Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood

One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand

By Pen Farthing, Farthing, Pen

The Elephant to Hollywood: The Autobiography

By Caine, Michael

Titans of History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Titian: His Life and the Golden Age of Venice

By Hale, Sheila

Seize the Moment: The Autobiography of Britain's First Astronaut: Autobiography of Helen Sharman

By Helen Sharman, Arthur C. Clarke, Christopher Priest

One Hot Summer In St Petersburg

By Fallowell, Duncan

Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence

By King, Ross

Goya

By Hughes, Robert

Michael Foot

By Jones, Mervyn

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By Lansing, Alfred

The Great Duke or the Invincible General

By Bryant, Arthur

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

By McCourt, Frank

The Downing Street Years

By Thatcher, Margaret