'Winning is everything', so they say. But actually second can be thrilling, intriguing, heroic and pure. You may not have heard of John Landy, Juerg Marmet or 'You Better Run', but that doesn't mean
Few actors achieve in their lifetime what Sir Ian McKellen has. A repertoire of vast commercial success coupled with critically acclaimed and authoritative Shakespearian roles. A man whose achievement
The third volume of Roy Strong's diaries cover the years 2004 to 2015. In January 2004 Strong was in a state of deep grief following the death of his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman, three months earlier.
A.A. Gill was fearsomely well-travelled. As he wrote in the introduction to his first anthology 'A.A. Gill is Away', one of his ambitions when he started out was to 'interview places' - he wanted to
'THE BEST NEW DISCOVERY I'VE COME ACROSS IN A LONG TIME' Michael Connelly'WRITING SO SHARP YOU MAY CUT YOUR FINGERS ON THE PAGES' Attica Locke'THE HOTTEST OF RECENTLY-EMERGED CRIME WRITERS' New York T
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are the creators of some of British television's most beloved comedies. Essex-born Clement teamed up with Geordie insurance salesman La Frenais in the early 1960s a
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to
Erno Rubik inspires us with what he's learned in a lifetime of creating, curiosity, and discovery. ERNO RUBIK was a child when he first became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. 'Puzzles', he write
Graham Jarvis has been at the top of off-road motorcycling for the best part of twenty-five years and has competed in hundreds of competitions and races all over the world, from TV's Junior Kickstart
What happens if someone dies on a plane?Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral directo
'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary MantelMany men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most
