During his nearly three decades of service, Pope John Paul II became the most recognized person in the world. He upheld many of the traditional values of the Catholic Church while also showing his progressive nature through his lifelong...

This controversial book presents the author's landmark research into the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. She proposes a radically different history of the life of Christ which sweeps away the miraculous elements associated...

Sebba reveals it took an American beauty just three days to land Lord Randolph Churchill. Eight months after the marriage, Lady Jennie bore their son Winston. Using her charms to advance her husband and son, Jennie discreetly seduces...

Janet Holmes a Court' is a detailed portriat of a complex and passionate Australian who has never been afraid to do things her own way. In 1990, the legendary Robert Holmes a Court died, and his wife Janet took over the reigns of...

Absorbing tales of a vet's life in the Yorkshire Dales.

Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire...

Personal story of a young, brave female, of the physical and emotional journey, the people it has affected and the support shown by all.

Arab-Canadian writer and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee, a gay man who grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Yemen, delivers a courageous, brutally honest, engaging and often funny memoir of family life over six decades. While he...

Describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topics as the role of imperial ambition in the expedition and the way in which the ascent reflected England's post-World War I...