DC Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug lord. Isolated from his colleagues, resenting the way his superiors have presented him the job as
Goalkeepers have an unusual view of the world, but as an American who played abroad, Brad Friedel's is more unique than most. A highly respected visionary who thinks outside the box, he focused on hi
A story of sibling rivalry, a seemingly perfect marriage, and the secrets which threaten everything?Nina is the peacemaker of the family?dutiful daughter, sister, and wife. Richard is the baby of the
Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses and inspired young and old with her incredible voice, her glamoro
It begins on a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world's oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. This is no natur
Guy Pratt came of age just as playing bass became sexy. In spurning the guitar solo, punk put the low-end on more of an equal footing—or maybe it was just that Paul Simonon and Bruce Foxton wer
The beautiful city of Venice has been Lydia's home for many years, a place where she has found peace and fulfillment. Then one day she glimpses a young man's face in the crowd that threatens to change
Charlotte Church burst onto the music scene when she was only 12 years old,went straight to the top of the charts withVoice of an Angel,and sang for the Pope, President Clinton, and
Never mind the other biographies: Sid Vicious is the definitive guide to the life and times of the Sex Pistols front man. As a veteran punk-rocker who lived briefly with Sid’s mother, author Al
From making sure he gets the most comfortable seat in the house to stealing sausages with his friends Jock and Yorkie, Fred Basset is a dog like no other. Another wonderfully entertaining collection
Haunted by his brother's murder when they were children and scarred by his parents' grief, Dave Lewis has built a bitter lifeworking as a magician, running a cynical magazine that derides his p
From selling fruit and vegetables out of his cartrunk after training, to life under lower division eccentrics such as John Beck and Barry Fry, Tales From the Boot Camps was Steve Claridge's hug
Roddy Doyle's account of the Republic of Ireland's triumphant journey through Italia '90 is just one of the many first-class pieces in this anthology of original football writing. Contributors includ
In December 1525, Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army. At the battle of Panipat five months later, he routed the
When Great Britain won gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics coxless four, seven million people watched and voted it the greatest sporting moment of the year. This moment, and Steve Redgrave's fifth Olymp
Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe presided over the golden era of British athletics. Between them they won three Olympic gold medals, two silvers, one bronze, and broke a total of twelve middle-distance
As an actor, Dirk Bogarde became a giant of the intellectual cinema, working with directors such as Joseph Losey, Lucino Visconti, and Alain Resnais. Fiercely protective of his privacy, and that of h
Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. In these memoirs she tells of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong
A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein, and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him into conflict with his church and his refusa
"Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure—those things . . . are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives." Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to the
