Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the [...]

Michael Mansfield, QC, is Britain’s most high-profile defence lawyer, whose unparalleled commitment to his clients and radical approach to forensics, evidence and disclosure have made [...]

Beginning with Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee writes evocatively of his idyllic childhood in the Cotswolds of the twenties, a world of rich sensuousness and [...]

AThe Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World [...]

George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of [...]

The Genius and the Goddess, based on Jeffrey Meyers’ long friendship with Arthur Miller and extensive archival research from Washington to Los Angeles, is a [...]