An imaginative recreation of the history of two families, commencing in Yorkshire and extending to Australia. Covering pre and First World War periods, the goldrushes, Great Depression, and the Second World War and its aftermath.

Jennifer Kuchinka was a new mother in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, struggling with postpartum depression when she ran out of the hospital, onto the highway, and was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Jennifer survived that harrowing...

By thirty Geoff Tilley had attained his Foreign-Going Master Certificate, the highest qualification in the merchant marine. Not long after he took a job with the Fremantle Stevedoring Company. Soon he was the youngest and highest paid...

Starting out as a backing band for rockabilly renegade Ronnie Hawkins before being propelled on to the world stage by no less than Bob Dylan, The Band literally changed the course of music with their first two albums. Retreating from...

In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Maher reconstructs the story of her life to restore the humanity of the woman at its center.

From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their...

A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, Marlena de Blasi thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet, within a few months she quits her job, sells her house, kisses her two grown-up children goodbye and moves to Venice to...

This memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard chronicles her kidnapping and the 18 years she was kept prisoner, then sexually and mentally abused. Jaycee was taken when she was 11 years old.

He was known simply as the "Blind Traveller"--a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the...