books by subject

Historical Biographies

Filter by available

Ruth First: Voices of Liberation

By Don Pinnock

Chief Whip: The Role, History and Black Arts of Parliamentary Whipping

By Renton, Tim

A House in the Sunflowers: An English Family's Search for Their Dream House in France

By Silvestre, Ruth, Grater, Michael

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Keynes, Richard

Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

By Blaine Harden

Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life

By Ridley, Mark

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

By Sussman, Peter Y.

Will the Chicken be with Grandma?

By Weber, James F.

Murder on the Home Front: a gripping murder mystery set during the Blitz - now on Netflix!

By Molly Lefebure

Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand

By Lawday, David

Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus

By Gordon, Lyndall

Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

By Power, Samantha

A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill

By Koren, Yehuda

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

By Byrne, Paula

The Knife Man. The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery

By Moore, Wendy

Thomas & Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage

By Ashton, Rosemary

Autobiography of Sir James Mitchell: Beyond the Islands

By Sir James Mitchell

Autobiography of Sir James Mitchell: Beyond the Islands

By Sir James Mitchell

Nelson Mandela Pre Intermediate + CD

By Carl W Hart

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

By Angelou, Dr Maya

The Point of Departure

By Cook, Robin F.

Beirut Diary: A Husband Held Hostage and a Wife Determined to Set Him Free

By Levin, Sis

Mary Seacole

By Robinson, Jane

Francis Of Assisi

By House, Adrian

Spike : A Biography

By Pauline Scudamore

John Major: Prime Minister

By The Press Association, Jenkin, John, Moncrieff, Chris

Glimpses of a Global Life

By Shridath Ramphal

Child of the Holocaust

By Kuper, Jack

A Highland Lady in France

By Grant, Elizabeth, Tod, Andrew

Mr Nice & Mrs Marks: - Adventures with Howard

By Marks, Judy